"That was the beginning of months of real, if more or less self-inflicted, misery for me"(365). Obviously, she is not dealing with the break up in a healthy way.
Unlike the character in the story, I was not at that point of misery, but I can totally relate to and understand why such heartache would bring you self-inflicted pain. Again, much like Munroe's character, I felt pain and heartache; I could not rid my self of the feelings of depression and helplessness. .
When growing up in a small town much like this girl, there's only so much pleasure that you can seek from within the town. Therefore, when you find happiness and love you feel so liberated. You can't give up those feelings of liberation because they feel to good. Those feelings allow you to feel more life than what is normally possible in that small town. When feelings that good are jerked out from under you, you stumble and you fall, exactly how this girl stumbled and fell.
In Monroe's other short story "Prue," she created a female character Prue, who was much like the younger female character in "An Ounce of Cure." Both the characters .
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were women, who seem to be victims of neglect due to lack of love. Although one was older than the other, many of the same emotions affected both. For example, Prue (the character in the second story) had almost the same type of dependency on a male romantic figure, as did the young girl in the first story. .
These two women also seemed to be battling between a time of divided values and loyalties. Such as in "Prue," she had loyalties to her family; yet still gave her love to Gordon, which caused her to be in constant turmoil. In "An Ounce of Cure," the young woman was in recurrent confusion due to the values reflected upon her from her family, and the small town she lived in.
As I was reading the second story I found myself constantly trying to compare the odd feelings of loneliness felt by both the women, to the feelings of loneliness that I sometimes feel.
The plot is centered around Alice and Cora Munroe who are trying to get back with their father after be captured by Uncas. ... Magua is angered due to his exile by Colonel Munroe. ... In order to do this he kidnaps Cora, Colonel Munroe's daughter. ... Cora Munroe is the daughter of Colonel Munroe. ... Magua shows courage by standing up for himself when Colonel Munroe exiles him. ...
