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The Doctor
The doctor gives Almeda ‘‘bromides and nerve medicine’’ for insomnia. He advises her to do housework and to exercise but not to read. It is his opinion that ‘‘her troubles would clear up if she got married,’’ despite the fact that he prescribes nerve medicine most often for married women.
The Narrator
The narrator is a person of unspecified gender who relates the tale of Almeda Roth, the story inside Munro’s short story, but who admits at the end that he or she is not sure the story happened that way, since he or she has guessed on many of the...
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