“I’vereadstorieslikethat,”Gretasaid,whenPeterfirsttoldheraboutthis.Sheexplainedhowinthestoriesthebabywouldstarttocryandinvariablyhadtobesmotheredorstrangledsothatthenoisedidnotendangerthewholeillegalparty. Petersaidhehadneverheardsuchastoryandwouldnotsaywhathismotherwouldhavedoneinsuchcircumstances. Whatshedidd...
Open Secrets, a collection of short stories written by Alice Munro, includes tales in which female characters are the primary focus. Love, and its imprint on many lives, is the central theme of this literary compilation. Gathering of Footprints Love inevitably carries consequences in its back ...
书名:Dear Life《亲爱的生活》 英文简介:Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, pe...
“I use bits of what is real, in the sense of being really there and really happening, in the world, as most people see it, and I transform it into something […] in my story” (Munro). In other words, Munro sees her work as a kind of fiction because she uses both reality and...
Munro is above all else a realist. She seeks to evoke the mysteries of real life and she succeeds brilliantly. The important people in Munro’s fiction are women. If these women are little concerned with national politics or the world at large, they take a great deal of interest in their...
After Alice Munro died, we learned about the real ‘open secrets’ (not so open to those of us not in the loop) which dominated the author’s life. We must now find a way to live with the reality that Munro’s work reads very differently after knowing certain decisions she made when...
The narrative voice is intriguing when choosing a literacy technique when applied to Alice Munro 's “Boys and Girls” and Jamaica Kincaid 's “Girl” because it highlights the significance of women 's role during the 1960 's. The story of Boys and Girls is in third person narration descri...
The relatives she had left behind in her life, and the people she knew now in her role as a housewife and mother, did not have to be trained because they knew nothing about this peculiarity.) It would become hard to explain, later on in her life, just what was okay in that time...
“Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro,” a project suggested by Alice Munro. Sheila makes no reference to the abuse of Skinner, but does observe that her mother often drew upon her private life and that she struggled to separate Munro's fiction ...
Many real-life versions of the Munro Woman have existed in every corner of society, with all their resentments and hopes, all their unused talent and their derided intelligence, providing more material and more ways for Munro’s imagination to express itself. They have been a gift...