Writing Magazine

Travel tales

In this month’s story, Dimension by Alice Munro, we join our main character, Doree, as she takes a long and emotionally trying journey.

As the story unfolds, we find out where she is going and why. We’re going to look at the importance of journeys in this story, and as usual you’ll get the most out of the master class if you read the story for yourself: https://writ.rs/dimension. I should warn you though that it is quite a sad one with some upsetting content.

At the beginning of the story we hear that Doree is undertaking a long and complex journey. She is travelling by bus, but not just one bus. She has to take three buses, interspersed by waits at depots, in order to reach her destination. We also find out quite early on that her destination is not a happy one.

The word ‘facility’ is used to describe where Doree is going. But what sort of

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