At the beginning of the story, Munro uses suspense when Edie is dressed in Mrs. Peebles dress and Chris Watters Suddenly appears at the screen door in the kitchen and asks to use the pump for water. “I turned from putting the ice tray back and saw a man watching me through the screen. It was the luckiest thing in the world I didn’t spill the ginger ale down the front of me and there.” (86). Munro shows the suspense in this scene by Edie was scare when she heard someone at the door. She is wearing a dress which is owned by Mrs. Peeble

The last time that Munro uses suspense when Edie patiently waits for the mail everyday, hoping and waiting for the letter to arrive. Mr. Carmichael is the postman who always comments on how Edie always had a smile. “ You’ve got the smile I have been waiting to see all day” (97). He used to yell out from the mail car window. Did the postman think Edie was waiting just because want to see him everyday? Edie soon realizes that the letter would never come. Because she is still suffering from the heartbreak of Chris, Edie is then blind to the love the mailman has for her.

Munro also introduces suspense once again when Edie has gone to the tent to give Chris a message from Alice Kelling. Chris tells Edie he will leave before Alice gets back into town. But Chris tells Edie he will write to her when he reaches his destination. “I don’t want you to go. I want a nice long time of saying good-bye to you.” (94). Chris tells Edie, as he begins to kiss and roll around on the bed with her. The suspense that Munro uses here is shown by not knowing, what happens if someone were unexpectedly coming in? What if Alice finds out? Where is Chris going? Will Chris ever write to Edie?

s. The reader maybe shock when she is caught in the kitchen. What if it was Mrs. Peebles, maybe Dr. Peebles or even Loretta Bird?

If Munro had started with the ending first, the whole climax of the story, which is when Edie ends up marrying the mailman, would be ruined. Munro tries to trick the audience into thinking that Chris Watters is the husband because of the reflected title. The kissing scene leads the reader to assume

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