6/25/2023 0 Comments Open secrets alice munro analysisThe intrusion is barely perceptible at first but words such as “desperately” and “dreadful,” which express opinions, mark a transition into free indirect speech. However, other people’s words and voices will slowly penetrate the narrative. She then comments on her family’s tendency to dwell on it, letting her impatience surface as she remarks: “Nothing could be said about Alfrida’s mother, or Alfrida’s father and very little about Alfrida herself without that death being dragged in and tacked onto it.” (Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage 109) 2 A remark in brackets in which the narrator explains that the father’s leaving the family farm was considered a downward step morally if not financially, suggests a personal comment and makes it clear that we are reading the narrator’s words and hearing her voice. The narrator first sums up the story for the reader-Alfrida’s mother died when an oil lamp exploded in her hands. 2 When required for purposes of clarity, subsequent references to this book will be abridged to Hates (.)Ģ It is the first time the reader is told the story, yet I would like to argue that it surfaces and resurfaces at the same time.
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