Alice Munroe

I can relate to Alice Munroe’s short stories because I have encountered many of the same experiences as Munroe and her characters have. “Munroe’s experience of growing up in a small town…negotiating the rebelliousness and idealism of adolescence…and getting along in a variety of complicated relationships all inform the fiction she creates”(362).

In “An Ounce of Cure,” Munroe tells a story about a girl who found her first love in a small rural town. Much like my first love, she was consumed by this love. She allowed Martin Collingwood, her love, to consume her everyday life. “The idea of him dominated my mind relentlessly, and after a while against my will”(365).

As I think back to my first love, I remember how that love dominated my entire existence. I w

They didn’t enjoy it when that seclusion was forced upon them. On the other hand, when they chose that isolation they enjoyed it because it brought them a simple pleasure, to be on their own.

Some topics in this essay:
Ounce Cure”, Martin Collingwood, Alice Munroe, Alice Munroe’s, Purest Form, Cure” Munroe, “an ounce cure”, “an ounce, ounce cure”, munroe’s characters, girl story, empty lonely feelings, sometimes feel, female character, feelings loneliness, short stories, alice munroe, story “prue”,