Alice Munro Short Stories Analysis

Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931. She grew up in community called the Reticent Scot Irish in Wingham, Ontario. This place is considered to be her own country, mostly all her stories centered on that area. As a child she had always dreamt of becoming a great writer, she has the passion of writing. Moreover, because she grew up at the time wnen as a female for her to become a writer was not easy. Her dream was not only becoming a writer but also to marry and have children, which is not accepted during the 1950s. She decided to hide her dream of becoming a writer. She says in an interview with Barbara Frum in 1973: “I worked out a way of living by pretending to be what people wanted me to be……

Her husband encourages her to continue writing short stories. Her short stories were published in so many magazines such as: Canadian Forum, Queens Quarterly, Chatelaine.Chatelaine, Review and Montrealer. She was still not happy because her stories were not published in a book form. In 1968 her first collection of book brought her some prestige; this was the first time she was recognized as a writer. In 1971 she published her first novel: Love of Girls and woman, which is a collection of short stories. It won the Canadian Booksellers award. In 1974 she divorced her husband.The style of her writings did not change over the years. Her characters are mostly the same. People according to her have dual character, “the ordinary life and the hidden life of adventures” (Rose 89). Her stories depicts the real life of people, but there is always the complicated undertone of the mysterious and Gothicism. “She presents ordinary life so that it appears luminous, invested with a kind of magic” (Rose 15). However her stories are having open endedness , which the readers never knows the actual