Meneseteung

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Meneseteung | The Narrative Use of Stereotype in Meneseteung

Like many other Alice Munro stories, ‘‘Meneseteung’’ explores the biases and obstacles an independent woman must face while living within a provincial culture. Almeda Joynt Roth, the story’s protagonist, is a poet, the author of ‘‘ballads, couplets, [and] reflections’’ that are often sentimental, if not morose, in tone. In piecing together the many facets of Roth’s biography, the narrator takes a view of the poet that is no different from that of her contemporaries during the latter half of the nineteenth century, a perspective that eventually leads to questions...

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