Fiction or Real Life
Alice Munro’s story introduces the readers that the fiction stories could arouse our feelings by applying our human experience into the stories. ... ” (Author’s Commentary, 489) This experience is evident to the real life. ... Munro grew up in a small town in Ontario, any small towns in the world do represent traditional view of life: quietness, well behaved, and set a high standard. ... This corresponds nicely with the complex characters and our real lives. ... Like Lorraine McMullen stated that … “Munro is a satirist for whom disorder, chance happenings and meetings, and the bizarre characters who reveal us to ourselves are all parts of an absurd yet real world” (490).