A Study Guide for Alice Munro's "How I Met My Husband"
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How I Met My Husband
Alice Munro
1974
Introduction
Known for her straightforward prose and her exploration of the everyday lives of ordinary people, Alice Munro is a Canadian short-story writer who in 2009 was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for her body of work. In How I Met My Husband,
published in 1974, Munro captures the emotional turmoil experienced by a young girl in a rural community when she has a brief romantic encounter with an older man.
Fifteen-year-old Edie, a failing student from a farming family who is hired as a nanny and housekeeper by the wealthy Dr. and Mrs. Peebles, becomes smitten with a pilot who earns a living taking people for airplane rides. The pilot, Chris Watters, has set up his business in the field across the street from the Peebles's home. After a secret romantic encounter with Chris, Edie is accused by the pilot's fiancée and by a neighbor of the Peebles family of having seduced Chris, who has packed up and fled. Edie eventually tires of waiting by the mailbox for the letter Chris has promised to write and is eventually courted by the mailman, who mistakenly believed that Edie was waiting for him every day. Edie's story reveals not only the social prejudices of the rural community but also explores Edie's journey from youthful innocence toward adult experience.
How I Met My Husband
was originally published in 1974 in the short story collection Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: Thirteen Stories. The collection was reissued by Vintage International in 2004.
Author Biography
Munro was born Alice Laidlaw on July 10, 1931, near Wingham, Ontario, to parents Robert Eric Laidlaw and Ann Chamney Laidlaw. The family lived on the outskirts of town in an area with a reputation for crime and poverty. Munro's mother was diagnosed with a rare form of Parkinson's disease when Munro was just ten years old, and the illness and its effects on the family would later inform Munro's fiction.
In 1949, Munro left Wingham for London, Ontario, where she began studying at the University of Western Ontario. Majoring in journalism, Munro also wrote short fiction in her spare time and soon published her first short story, The Dimensions of a Shadow,
in the university magazine Folio in 1950. At the university on a scholarship, Munro worked a number of jobs and even sold