Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose [Who Do You Think You are?] | Ideas for Group Discussions
With their formal and thematic emphasis on the inevitability of interconnectedness in the lives of the central characters, the stories in The Beggar Maid provide excellent opportunities for discussion of character development. A good line to pursue, for instance, is to examine how the events and experiences of Rose's past bear on her life as she matures and whether readers believe Munro's assertion of the strength of these past connections. This is an assertion that, in one sense, raises an interesting challenge to the western cultural belief that through hard work and dedication...
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