How would you state the theme of this story? Explain
What will be an ideal response?
Notice how Munro keeps other eligible males out of the first three quarters of the story. We—like Edie— have nowhere to fasten our romantic assumptions except on this exotic pilot (exotic to Edie, that is: “I only knew he wasn’t from around here” is how she describes him from their initial meeting. That may not sound like much to us, but to a fifteen-yearold farm girl, her words connote a world of mystery). Having skillfully carried us along with Edie’s feelings and the changes they undergo, Munro has carefully prepared us to accept the story’s theme when Edie essentially states it in the story’s nextto-last paragraph: “If there were women all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be. Even though there might be things the second kind of women have to pass up and never know about, it still is better.” A solid, comfortable life with a good but unexciting man is better than the extravagant emotional highs and lows of what the world commonly defines as “romantic love”; in her hard-won, bird-in-the-hand view, Edie feels that what she has given up counts for less in the end than what she has gained in exchange.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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What will be an ideal response?
¿Por qué se burlaban de la protagonista sus hermanos?
What will be an ideal response?