Munros Trademarks
? One of Munro’s trademarks is her ambivalent presentation of characters. Choose three characters from the novel and show how they support this claim.
Whenever I find myself thinking about the years I spent in junior high and high school the memory of my grade eight-math class stands out. Math was never my favorite subject; therefore, I never really enjoyed math class. I remember clearly the first day I set my foot in my grade eight-math class I thought to myself how awful it was going to be to spend another year studying math. Little to my knowledge, all of my negative anticipations about math were about to change. My change of heart about math came about because of my teacher. From ...
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the other hand hated math class. Her dislike of math class was solely based on the fact that she didn't like our math teacher. She thought that our math teacher was a horrible teacher who couldn't teach and her attitude problems. It was quit astonishing how I could only concentrate on Ms. Smith's positive attributes while my best friend was only able to the negative things of our teacher. Now that I think back I realize that our grade eighth teacher had both the positive and negative attributes. The only reason why my best friend and I had two very different opinions about her personality was because of the way we perceived her.
Likewise in the book “Lives of girls and women” Munro presents characters in an ambivalent way because it’s for more realistic. The three ambivalent characters that I want to talk about are Uncle Bill, Uncle Benny and Naomi.
The first ambivalent character that I found was Uncle Bill. Uncle Bill was generous to Ada and Del on her visit, but ...
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a meal ticket.”
(Munro, p.100)
After a while Uncle Bill left the house for the grocery shopping with Del. He bought so many things such as coffee, canned fruit, pudding mixes, macaroni dinners, figs, cheese, dates, powders, tinned oysters and so many other stuffs, and that wasn’t all, he also stopped at the pastry shop and bought lots of things from there too. At this point Del was afraid to look at anything, in fear that he would buy it. She thought to her self,
“I saw now that too much really might be too much. Even
Owen might in the end have been depressed by this idiot
largesse, which threw the whole known system of rewards
and delights out of ...
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