WED/3/9: Alice MUNRO, “Wenlock Edge (Links to an external site.)” and “Runaway (Links to an external site.)”* (Miranda Young) We often use stories as a way of justifying ourselves, or explaining a consequence of an action. If someone asks you, “Why did you do that?” to address a particular action of yours, you may give them a type of story as a form of explanation. Alice Munro, as a realist fiction writer, is keenly aware of plot’s role as causal explanation. And yet, in a certain way, her stories refrain from showing us the reason why certain things happen. There’s an opacity to her stories. In your essays, you can write on one or all of the following questions: Why does the woman send the letter at the end of “Wenlock Edge”? Why does Carla get off the bus in “Runaway”? If you’re not sure of the answer to either of the first two questions, then why do you think Munro has hidden the answer to these questions? I will attach the rubric, write more personal opinions, you can use first person. 500 words.
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