Atwood, Margaret | Ildikó de Papp Carrington (essay date 1991)
Ildikó de Papp Carrington (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: “Definitions of a Fool: Alice Munro's ‘Walking on Water’ and Margaret Atwood's Two Stories about Emma: ‘The Whirlpool Rapids’ and ‘Walking on Water,’” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring, 1991, pp. 138–46.
[In the following essay, Carrington finds parallels between Alice Munro's “Walking on Water” and Margaret Atwood's “The Whirlpool Rapids” and “Walking on Water.”]
In 1974 Alice Munro published “Walking on Water” in Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You. In 1986 Margaret Atwood also published a short story entitled “Walking on Water.” Appearing originally in Chatelaine, it was republished in a longer version in the second, American edition of Bluebeard's Egg.1 In both Munro's and Atwood's stories, the titles' Biblical allusion refers to a young character who risks drowning by trying to walk...
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