ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: 6 Years, Military Simulation, Alice Munro
28 Mar 2018
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Fallible/unreliable narrator: perception, interpretation and evaluation of the matters he or she narrates do not coincide with the opinions and norms implied by the author, which the author expects the reader to share. Structurally invites a comparison of two events -- the drowning of an 8 year old boy [steve gauley] that the narrator remembers from her childhood. Most of the story is made up of her memory of her daughter almost drowning in a pool during a family car trip. Implying something about motherhood -- 8 year old boy didn"t have a mother but had a father. Daughter would have drowned if meg hadn"t swum to save herself. Important for the narrator"s interpretations of what happened, shows various perspectives of how people see things. Underlying disagreement within her marriage, showing why it doesn"t work. 579: after the crisis "when i stood apart from my parents "
