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INSIGHTFUL NARRATIVES FROM THE NOVELS OF ALICE MUNROAbstract
Alice Munro is a prominent Canadian writer who brings an effective art of narrative in her Novels and short stories. Munro has “revolutionized the architecture of short stories and brought a modesty and subtle wit to her work that admirers often traced to her background growing up in rural Canada”. Munro is one of the most well-known and highly praised representatives of Canadian short fiction writing, both on the Canadian and on the international scale.
In her novels, what techniques Munro uses to create the impression of her stories not being stories, but truth”, or the reality” as such. however, they have omitted some aspects of Munro’s work which would, in fact, support the argument that despite her realism, her short stories are in fact very well-structured, and fit into the general pattern of traditional criteria towards short stories: they excessively use foreshadowing technique, the opening sentence initiates the predesigned effect and every word has its place in the story line, they are indeed chosen very carefully. Her stories investigate human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Narrative is the focal movement of the characters of Munro\'s fiction. Her fundamental subject is humiliation and grief, sexual perversity, terminal illness and fatal accidents but her memoirs are the best.
In the present paper, I illustrate how the techniques described and depicted in Munro’s novels, all the protagonists of Alice Munro’s stories are modern, educated and independent women, between the ages of thirty to thirty five. At the end they emerge more confident, control and significantly helpful. Her plot is relatively basic and simply told in a simple language. She likes using small town setting where even the minor events and minor characters hold higher significance. Her writings mainly focus on the lives of women and their problems in particular. The effect of realism is very strong in her stories. Her use of one word title focuses the narrative perspective of each story on an image that makes the reader to understand the story.
KEYWORDS : Revolutionized, Foreshadowing technique, Human complexities, Independent women