ENG353Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Short Story Cycle, Alice Munro, Mental Disorder
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Lives of girls and women alice munro. Positions us regionally and spatially, positions del in relation to other characters. This short story collection is considered a novel kunstlerroman, complex relationship with her mother. Short story cycle overarching narrative or thematic purpose. Del in her youth, her experiences in school, relationships, career. Narrators look into the future of characters" fate (del"s mother"s body) exploration of the past and future. Suggest something sinister about becoming the artist in the world, fragments of memory. Focus on a road separate and connect different spaces, divides community of class, culture. The flats road a space that isn"t quite apart of the town or country. Preoccupation with outsiders, del as a mediator at the end of the road p. 7 jubliee as a place of possibility. P. 9 being at the end of the road and not part of the flats road (people of poverty, mental disorder). Mother does not want to associate with them.
