Patrick Silva AP Lit Period 4 Mr. Schmitz October 11‚ 2012 How I Met My Husband Thesis Paper The theme of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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Morrison “How I Met My Husband” Response Q4 1 October 2013 At a young age‚ women have a tendency to be naïve and innocent. With that‚ the two factors create a vulnerable persona in a girl‚ and it compels a person to feel sympathy towards them. “How I Met My Husband” consists of a protagonist‚ Edie‚ who is also naïve and innocent as well as humble and simple. These traits convince me to believe her to be a sympathetic character in the story. As a young‚ naïve‚ gullible girl‚ I feel nothing
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“How I Met My Husband” Throughout Alice Munro’s short story “How I Met My Husband” the main character Edie changes. She interacts with different characters and her identity is influenced with every person she comes in contact with. Edie seems to reflect each person she talks to and mirrors who they are. By the end of the story though Edie figures out who she is and the reader is able to understand what forced her into being this person. The theme of this short story is that in order to find the
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really cares for her. "I am going to write you a letter. I’ll tell you where I am and maybe you can come see me. Would you like that? Okay then. You wait" (Munro 136). He promises her he will write‚ and for months after that she sits and waits daily for the mail to come‚ not realizing she had a future husband waiting there for her the entire time. She later marries the mailman and he truly believes that she was waiting for him. "He always tells the children the story of how I went after him by sitting
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The short story How I Met My Husband‚ by Alice Munro‚ is an excellent example of realistic writing. She uses ordinary and worldly events‚ actual locations‚ and a very ironic tone in the story. Alice Munro also uses everyday people for her protagonists‚ who encounter normal events and emotions. In the story How I Met My Husband‚ Edie shows the growth from someone who is very naïve to someone who is more realistic. In the beginning of this story‚ Edie is a very naïve fifteen-year-old girl. She does
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Analysis of How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro Deneen Bell Instructor Heather Altfeld Fisher 125- Introduction of Literature November 28‚ 2011 The Analysis of How I Met My Husband Introduction In this analysis I plan to show that the first person point of view was used to write this short story. I also want to show that there is more than one theme as well. I would like to show how Edie kept secrets and how she was blinded by love. I plan to show that this story contained secrecy almost
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Short Story Assignment How I Met My Husband- Alice Munro Alice Munro Alice Munro was born 10 July 1931. Alice attended the University of Western Ontario. She left university when she married her husband James Munro. Alice moved to Vancouver with her husband and they opened a book store. Alice began publishing her work in magazines and grew to publishing her own books. She is now 82 years old and lives in Wingham‚ Ontario. She has four children and is still married. Alice is a Canadian author
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I read How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro. This is a short story told in the first-person narrative. The theme of this story is a simple‚ but good one. The theme is love. Or to put it in broader terms‚ the theme could be described as while sometimes it may come from heartbreak‚ fate can bring is to the person we are meant to love forever. When it comes to exploring the point of view of this story‚ you can ask yourself a few questions. “This story is told in the first person by a teenage girl
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I can’t recall the day I first met my husband. I had seen him at work for a few weeks‚ and I was beyond intimidated. He strutted around the production floor of the food manufacturing plant where we both worked. He was a supervisor with a reputation for being hard and demanding‚ but his crew was loyal. He had a long goatee and even longer curly dark hair‚ which when not in a bun‚ fell past his waist. His hair had orange stripes from a hair bleaching gone wrong. When combined with his massive
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