Deep Holes by Alice Munro - 889 Words

Alice Munros story featured in The New Yorker, â€Å"Deep Holes† has complex undertones that mirror the authors feelings as a mother and an artist. Sally, the mother in the story has three children but the main focus lies between the dynamics between Sally a passive wife, Alex her domineering husband, and Kent her rebellious oldest son. The story begins with a family picnic that abruptly ends when Kent literally falls into a â€Å"deep hole.† The interactions leading up to following this accident reveals layer upon layer of unresolved issues imbedded into this family. While Sallys attempts to bond with Kent through a seemingly kindred connection, she inadvertently loses touch with him. Sally is a representative of the â€Å"artists problem† since she struggles as a mother to find solidarity, equilibrium and influence within her family life. In the â€Å"Person 2 Person† interview with Paula Todd, Munro discusses how she faced the feelings of exclusion and loneliness by choosing to be a writer instead of a more acceptable role for a woman in her community. Sallys character illustrates how a person can be lonely even when surrounded by family. Humans are naturally communal, even an oddball yearns for a sense of solidarity. This is a challenge for Sally, who is a misfit and dreamer compared to her more left-brained husband and two youngest children. Sally constantly internalizes her ideas and gut feelings to fit in with her husband. This behavior is evident at the picnic, â€Å"Sally clamps herShow MoreRelatedDescriptive Essay About Shepherds1835 Words   |  8 Pagesprotocols, â€Å"the higher ups†, maybe if he wasn’t so uptight he’d actually enjoy his life of cabbage haggling a little more. What does he know anyways? He’s too old to appreciate true beauty anyway; wouldn’t know it if it walked right into his little hidey-hole he calls his office. There all robots anyways, simply cogs in the whole AP factory, working forever like clockwork only to be replaced when they wear out. But none of that matters anymore, does it? Despite the empty pit in my stomach filling withRead MoreAlice Munro the Found Boat4294 Words   |  18 PagesAlice Munro The Found Boat 1974 At the end of Bell Street, McKay Street, Mayo Street, there was the Flood. It was the Wawanash River, which every spring overflowed its banks. Some springs, say one in every five, it covered the roads on that side of town and washed over the fields, creating a shallow choppy take. Light reflected off the water made every- thing bright and cold, as it is in a lakeside town, and woke or revived in people certain vague hopes of disaster. Mostly during the late afternoonRead MoreStylistic Potential of the English Noun16714 Words   |  67 Pagessecond one by means of about 200 cases that have been taken from the works that belong to the belles-lettres style (tales, poetry, short stories) written by such famous English and American writers of 18-20 centuries as Blake W., ColeridgeS.T., Munro H., Poe A.A., Hemingway E., Salinger J.D, etc. The aim of this chapter is to put the considered theory into practice showing the way the phenomena have been dealt with work out. The examples are organized also according the four nounal categories