One of the things I found most interesting about this month’s story, ‘Some Women’ by Alice Munro, is its use of shape and space in both a literal and metaphorical sense. The story revolves around a man who is sick and dying in his bed whilst various women in the house, including our thirteen-year-old narrator, undertake aspects of his care. You can read it here: Firstly, let’s think about the generational patterns made by the women in the story. Our young narrator finds herself in a household where there are two other women: ‘Old Mrs Crozier’, who is the stepmother of the dying ‘Young Mr Crozier’, and also Sylvia, the dying man’s wife. This generational structure is paralleled with the narrator’s family in which we get to hear about her own mother and grandmother. We learn about different attitudes and opinions over the generational divides. For example, we hear that the narrator’s grandmother
PHYSICAL GEOMETRY
Jul 06, 2023
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