Janet and Edie's life

The main character is sent by his father to stay with his grandmother. This is where you learn that the strong heart runs in the family. This is true because she is a seventy-eight year old woman and will still patch out two acres of corn and make enough bread for the winter to do what she can to keep her family feed.  In her old age she hasn’t kept the best health. Some days she is too sick to get out of the bed. The main character takes care of her he cooks all the meals for her and helps her start to feel better. Living with her he hears stories of his father and how he is an honest man. Also his grandmother tells him about his grandfather and all the great things he would do.  Living with his grandmother is a great experience for the main character because she brings him history of his family and teaches him many things on how to live a content life.

Sprinkled throughout the account of Beauvoir`s experience, it is easy to see the many difficulties that occur within the relationships of doctors, health care staff, family and friends. This repertoire offers a profoundly private account of the, anguish, remorse, and frustration that is often associated with the journey of a loved one to his or her demise. The account is simplistic and to the point; with the frank and truthful visualization and rumination one would experience under similar circumstances. There is a moral dilemma initiated at the beginning of Beauvoir’s hospital experience with her mother, which not only includes deception on the part of her and her sister, but dishonesty

The story of Alice Munro's "How I Met My Husband" concerns a young woman named Edie who falls in love with a man well above her station. Edie falls in love with a pilot named Chris Watters who is unfortunately engaged to another woman, Alice Kelling. Eventually, Chris leaves the community in which Edie and Alice both reside, promising to write to her although he never does. Through a twist of events, the mailman believes that Edie is enamored of him and that is why she waits for the mail with baited breath every day and she agrees to marry him, never letting on the real reason for her devotedness to the letter box. What makes the story so interesting is Munro's characterizations of the two female love interests, the theme of misconception and misunderstanding, and her use of irony.

The young sisters, who know little about their father’s suffering, make fun of the hole without knowing the consequence of their action. The father is unable to intervene on his daughters’ behalf, as he sits there “face paled.” (40), till the mother orders the children to keep quiet. Apparently, his role in the family structure prevents him from expressing his emotion directly to his children. Nevertheless, after a visit to the doctor, it turns out that the father’s internal organs are intact despite their state of severe deformation, which shows the father’s incredible determination to remain functional in his family role after his tragic loss. Ironically, the doctors “pronounced him in great health” (41), which implies that apparent defects in mental health could be suppressed by the father’s unwillingness to challenge his image as a man, thus they are not easily detectable. The father’s behavioral patterns after his father’s death are in accordance to many stereotypical views of men.

The memoir of Jeannette Walls had several characters, important people in her life. But, there was one specific character, her dad, that she had a close relationship with. Jeannette Walls grew up in poverty and always moved around. Her family was close, but Jeannette was closest to her father over anyone else. She loved and admired her father and defended him too. Her memoir, “The Glass Castle” is very popular. She is a grown-up now and cares about her parents. She offers to help them out of poverty, but they resist. Jeannette certainly cares for both parents, but her father has a special place in her heart. Jeannette has a special relationship with her father because she admired his heroicness, she got to pick Venus as her star, and he helped her and distracted her from being scared and in pain.

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” uses the themes of secrecy and love just about throughout the entire story. In this story Edie is a fifteen year old girl who is employed by the Pebble’s family. She initially succeeds at

The father’s way of dealing with his inner issues is reflected by the way he distracts himself with hobbies of the women he loves. This illustrates how a sudden tragedy can influence someone’s lifestyle. In fact, before his first wife passed away he showed a lot of interest in art and when she died he was lost and devastated ,” (…) after mom died, my sister and I used to worry about his living alone. And he was lonely.We knew that after putting in his usual twelve-hours workday, he would return to the empty house (...) then read medical journals until it was time to go to sleep.”(16). This implies that

The story How I Met My Husband shows the expansion that takes place for Edie in her life. Edie started at the beginning of the story as a young girl with a very naïve sense of the world. Towards the middle of the story, she starts to grow into someone who

Father, the compassionate husband, dies on the Lusitania ship. A middle-class man started a business, sought an ordinary life, and ended up having many severe family problems. Doctorow made Father a tragic man by

In her short story “How I Met My Husband”, Alice Munroe takes the reader through Edie’s story. It starts with Edie being hired to help Mrs. Peebles with housework and her two kids, and ends with her married to the mailman with kids of her own. Edie is only 15 when the story takes place and she falls for the pilot who has recently come to work across the street giving rides for a dollar. When she first sees him at the door of the Peebleses’ house she reacts just like a teenage girl. Munroe writes, “My head was knocking away, my tongue was dried up. I had to say something. I had to say something, but I couldn’t. My throat was closed and I was like a deaf-and-dumb” (136). Munroe further

sentence we know it is the narrator’s story as she describes her experience and conversation with

       As the tale begins we immediately can sympathize with the repressive plight of the protagonist.  Her romantic imagination is obvious as she describes the "hereditary estate" (Gilman, Wallpaper 170) or the "haunted house" (170) as she would like it to be.  She tells us of her husband, John, who "scoffs" (170) at her romantic sentiments and is "practical to the extreme" (170).  However, in a time

“The arrival of Chris and his plane initiates the action, and his appearing at the screen door while Edie is dressing up in Mrs. Peebles’ clothes gives a jolting start to their relationship. What other means does Munro use to advance the plot?” (cited in Clugston, 2010, sec. 8.2, para. 203) We know the story is going to be about how Edie meets her future husband. The reader starts the story off thinking that this pilot could possibly be that man. Chris meets Edie when he catches her dressed up in Mrs. Peebles’ dress. He tells her he thinks she is beautiful. He spent the summer complimenting her and making little comments about wanting to see her again. I believe the only time in the story we hear of the real Chris is when she surprises him with the cake and he angrily replies “Come in”. The next thing Munro uses to advance the plot is Chris leaves town telling Edie I’m going to write you a letter. I’ll tell you where I am and maybe you can come and see me. Would you like that? Okay then. You wait.” It is this conversation that leads to the next plot advancement; Edie sitting by the mailbox every day. When Edie begins waiting for the mail every day, she meets the mailman. She didn’t really think anything about their daily

The sister prepares the evening meal, making her contribution to the family; and calls on the boy to come and eat. The saw in the boy?s hands was still running and when he took his attention away from his work, and that split second of carelessness cost him an extremity. His instincts raised his arm upward to keep all the blood from spilling out immediately. When he realized what was happening, the boy finally realized he was to young to be doing a man?s work. The boy ?saw all spoiled,? and now knew his whole childhood had vanished and it was impossible to get it back. The boy frantically called out to his sister to make the doctor keep his hand on. The boy?s body must have instantly gone into shock and not felt the absence of the hand. When the doctor arrived he gave him some ether to make him go to sleep. The little boy began to lose his pulse and soon he was a stranger to the world. The people surrounding the boy never expected the loss of his hand to tragically end the little boy?s life. Frost?s almost appalling casual description of death shocks the reader enough to make them think. ?Since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs,? describes the environment of the survivors. They are forced to move on with their life and keep working because they cannot afford to stop and mourn.