The Progress of Love (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1986
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Memory, Love or romance, Women’s issues, Happiness, Aging
Form and Content
The Progress of Love collects eleven of Alice Munro’s short stories. As the title suggests, the stories tend to focus on the progress—or lack of progress—in family and love relationships. Many of the major characters are women in their forties and fifties who are looking back at life events, momentous or trivial, that changed or illuminated a moment in time: A girl believes that her mother is about to commit suicide, a man visits his former wife with the girlfriend he no longer desires, a schoolgirl imagines an affair with an older man.
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