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Alice MunroThe first love is hard to get over especially when the love is not reciprocated. Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure” describes a teenager’s reaction to being dumped by her first boyfriend. How the...
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Alice Munro“An Ounce of Cure” by Alice Munro explores the theme of growing up in 1960s America as a teenage girl. Teenagers have choices to make as they become more independent from their parents and forget...
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Alice MunroYour best chance to contact her is to write to her literary agent. The second best bet is to write to her publisher, Random House. I've pasted links to web sites where you can find contact...
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Alice MunroWhat happens when a girl gets dumped? This is the problem faced by the main character in Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure.” The narration is first person point of view with the protagonist, an...
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Alice MunroThe town and the era in which "An Ounce of Cure" occurs contributes to the narrator's grievances in that she's never really able to forget two youthful mistakes, which were all centered around a...
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Alice MunroAt the end of To Reach Japan, the sentence portraying one of the girls' "pulling away" actually leaves its grammatical subject ambiguous. That is, it isn't explicit whether Katy or Greta is the one...
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Alice MunroI'll stick with the short story "Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro. The story is narrated from the perspective of an 11 year old girl. She lives on a ranch that breeds and raises foxes. The narrator...
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Alice MunroAlice Munro portrays two sisters who struggle with the death of their mother in “The Peace of Utrecht.” The setting is Jubilee, in Canada. The point of view is first person with Helen, one of the...
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Alice Munro"The Found Boat" is about a group of schoolchildren—two girls and three boys—who find a dilapidated boat in a river near their homes. The boys start out by ridiculing the girls and making fun of...
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Alice MunroIn “Red Dress” by Alice Munro and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, both mothers live vicariously through their daughters and want them to be happy; one wants an ordinary life for her daughter, and the other...
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Alice MunroThe ambiguity of Herb's sexuality makes him an enigma to the narrator in the short story "The Turkey Season." While she is working and learning at the Turkey Barn, she becomes enamored with Herb,...
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Alice MunroYou haven't told us which short story this quote comes from, so I will have to respond as best I can just from the quote. However, please remember that whenever you are trying to establish the...
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Alice MunroIn a PhD interview, examiners are normally concerned with the issue of whether you are prepared for postgraduate level work on your specific subject. In particular, you want to give the impression...
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Alice MunroOne could argue that the gap between Greta's identity as a poet—or "poetess" as her husband Peter's family insists on calling her—and as a wife and mother isn't really troubling at all. It only...
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Alice Munro“The Peace of Utrecht” by Alice Munro portrays two sisters who took different paths in facing their individual futures. The older sister stayed at home and took care of their mentally ill mother;...