How I Met My Husband | Critical Overview
According to Aida Edemariam, writing in The Guardian in 2003, “For a long time, Alice Munro has been compared with Chekhov.” The most significant difference between Munro and Chekhov is that Munro focuses on the female experience. Tim Struthers points out, however, that Munro writes neither explicitly political nor feminist stories; instead, they are concerned with the struggle women face between rebellion and respectability—what Munro calls “the underbelly of relationships.”
Munro’s first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), and...
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