Lives of Girls and Women (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Laidlaw
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Kunstlerroman
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s and early 1960’s
- Setting: Jubilee, a small town in southwestern Ontario
- Principal Characters: Del Jordan, Ada Jordan, Uncle Benny, Marion Sherriff, Naomi
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Children, Family or family life, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, 1940’s, Religion, Social life, Writing, Poverty or poor people, Women’s issues, Women, Canada or Canadians, Small-town life, High schools or high school students, Intellect
- Locales: Jubilee, Canada
The Novel
Lives of Girls and Women, Alice Munro’s only novel, is more a collection of connected short stories narrated by its protagonist, Del Jordan, than a fully conceived and unified narrative. Each of the novel’s eight chapters is a basically self-contained tale that reveals one more significant set of facts about Del’s evolving identity specifically her coming of age in the small Ontario town of Jubilee.
The novel begins with “The Flats Road,” an important retrospective of an episode in Del’s childhood. In this chapter, she is first awakened to...
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