How I Met My Husband (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Ontario, Canada
- Principal Characters: Edie, Chris Watters, Alice Kelling, Loretta Bird
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Beauty, Letter writing, Canada or Canadians, Airplanes or jets, Pilots or pilotage
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
The Story
A red-and-silver plane lands at the old fairgrounds across the road from the home of the Peebles, for whom Edie works. Edie's first close-up view of an airplane leads to her first encounter with romance.
Edie is both eager for and rather innocent about romance. She is quite proudly aware of her blossoming womanhood, and the day after the plane lands, Edie gets the impulse to dress herself up in Mrs. Peebles's finery, put on makeup, and play the part of a sophisticated beauty while Mrs. Peebles is out for the afternoon. This is how she is discovered by Chris...
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