... when they repudiate Him- (Allen 255). She was a deeply religious woman who felt the need to sometimes horrify the reader with wild characters and her startling endings in order to get across her theological ideas. Doctor Thelma J. Shinn, a Professor of English and Women's Studies at Purdue University, wrote " And her criminals, her misfits and prophets, are closer to salvation because they are ... in the spiritual realm: they are Evil and are fighting a religious battle within themselves- their belief or disbelief in Christ is a matter of life and death- (375). For instance, in the titl...

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... how thin or strong it may seem. Robert Lacy writes about Munro's first story, "Walker Brothers Cowboy," which is from one of her earliest collections saying, Set during the Depression, it's a stark tale told from the point of view of a traveling salesman's daughter looking back on a day when their father took her and her little brother with him on his rounds. During the course ... up. In one particular interview with D.J Bruckner, Munro herself expressed that her mother in particular kept popping up in many of her stories. Conducting the interview, Bruckner observes, "indeed, her mother...

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... . 27,2002 One is the Loneliest Number In the stories "Canoe" and "Death of a Traveling Salesman" we are given two different main characters that are strikingly similar. " It is the meeting of two worlds, the past and the present, the simple and the complex, the loved and the loveless- (Jones) They are both salesman and they both want desperately to connect with other people but are ... man is really Hazlett. " You hear me pal? We've gotta keep on living. You understand that, don't you?" (S&L 303) "Death of a Traveling Salesman is a story of contrasts" (Daniel 278) R.J. Bowman is a self-a...

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