Royal Beatings (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Munro
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: West Hanratty, Ontario, Canada
- Principal Characters: Rose, Flo, Her father
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Girls
- Locales: Ontario, Canada
The Story
Rose, a girl nearing adolescence, lives with her father, her stepmother, and her younger half brother, Brian, in a small town in the Ottawa Valley of central Canada. Her father is a scrupulous furniture restorer who works in a shed behind the family's home and storefront. His earnings barely suffice to provide the most minimal of family needs. Their house in West Hanratty, a section of the town where the social structure “ran from factory workers and foundry workers down to large improvident families of casual bootleggers and prostitutes and unsuccessful thieves,”...
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