Alice Munro Essay

The story “Boys and Girls” written by Alice Munro, demonstrates how she breaks the traditional gender stereotypers. The writer finds that women should not be controlled under any rules, changing the ways of how her family thinks about women behaviors are necessary. At first, the writer is a girl who comes from a traditional family. From the story, her grandmother says“ Girls keep their knees together when they sit down(paragraph 22)”. However, “(Alice) continued to slam the doors and sit as…

In the story, “Miles City, Montana,” written by Alice Munro depicts that the narrator as a woman whose personal identity among a community of conformity. The story begins from her childhood where the boy has drowned. This story is also known as frame narrative which means it has two stories in a single story. Firstly, the starting line of the story where the little boy drowned and the narrator tells, “I don’t think so. I don’t think I really saw all this” (1085). It means that the narrator does…

irony in any work of literature can elevate a seemingly simple pretense of a storyline into one with depth and profundity. In “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro, the situational irony present in both the main plot and the subplots increases the suspense that is already prevalent in the superficial aspect of the main scenario of the story. Alice Walker demonstrates the effect of irony in “Everyday Use” by evoking the internal thoughts and emotions of the mother in a narrative with no outward…

Do You Think You Are” by Alice Munro is a story of a girl named Alice who trying to find out who she really is. By observing the story and looking at how it was written, we can see how the narrative affects the reader. Looking at Munro’s use of the unexpected, details, and point of view, one can see how the narrative affects the reader’s comprehension of the story. Writing the unexpected and keeping the audience entertained is a crucial part of every story (Awano). Munro does an excellent work…

Self-worth is something that can be hard to earn and is easy to lose; tribulation can easily take esteem of one’s self away. In the short story “Boys and Girls,” author Alice Munro establishes the idea that when strong tribulation originating from elements of setting burdens characters then individuals’ resilience is destroyed, which results in the destruction of self-worth. This is seen specifically with the antagonist, who is a young girl, and struggles against the expectations of her mother…

cavernous symbolism that is represented by the deep-holes. The deep-holes in the story represent something much larger than a pit in a field; id est the complexity of family relationships and bonds, the gaping void of genuine love in the family that Alice Munro has conjured - particularly the ravine-like divide between Alex and Kent. The deep-holes represent the shadowy cave that is revealed when one loses their sense of self much like Kent and Sally did. But in contrast, the deep-holes…

Munro does not give the protagonist a name because she is known as a nobody in the household. Her brother, Laird, has a name which mean he will have power over the household. This means that being a boy meant a big thing since they give you an identity…

Alice Munro use the legend of Moirai to show the dominate role of fate of individual’s life. The Moirai is known as Fate in English which has three sisters with different responsibility in determine individual’s fate. Moirai used be a patron saint who protect the village by join in people’s birth. Three sisters are Clotho who textile the line of life with a spindle in hand, Lachesis who measures each person’s life with a measuring rod, and Atropos who responsible for cutting the line of life…

In the short stories, Boys and Girls by, Alice Munro and The Birth Mark by Nathaniel Hawthorne, each author has shown similarities of two young women who seem to change their appearance or personality to conform to the desires of strong male figures in their lives. Both authors use their talent in literature to express their societal views and the role women were expected to play in that time period. It was important that authors could use their talent of writing to express their own societal…

"Royal Beatings" by Alice Munro and "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan delve into the lives of parents and children who live in the lower income bracket. This essay will focus on the parent/child relationship. The relationship is governed by the knowledge that sometimes parents never really understand their children, and the power struggles that ensue between them. The two stories can be viewed from the attitudes and behaviours between the parents and their children, how the conflict between parent…