Lives of Girls and Women | Characters
As the narrator of all eight sections of Lives of Girls and Women, Del Jordan is the book's central character. Although Munro never establishes her as the authoritative "I" that signals more traditional first-person narratives, she is the filter through which we gain access to her stories and the stories she is told directly or overhears. Like many of Munro's female characters who are intelligent, although not necessarily formally educated women, Del considers herself an outsider, both at home, where her mother practices a personal mixture of agnosticism and feminism, and in the town...
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