ENGL100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alice Munro
28 Oct 2016
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How i met my husband by alice munro. Overall idea: love story between an idea and a girl. Romance can be found anywhere, even in the mailbox. Themes: love, growth and transformation, coming of age, class (social standing), betrayal, loss of. Setting - post world war ii - cars were in short supply then, after the war, edie tells us when explaining why mrs. peebles, though wealthy, doesn"t have a car of her own. Her domestic values contribute to a sense of time and place. Mrs. peebles does not know how to bake pie and prefers jell-o or fruit out of a tin for dessert. In the bathroom, edie begins to understand her sexuality: there, in the three-way mirror all steamed up and the air like a perfumed cloud, she would admire herself naked, from three directions. From the peebles" house, there is a place where the fairgrounds used to be signifies the possibilities in edie"s life.
