In Alice Munro's short story, Red Dress-1946, the character Mary Fortune represents the symbol of influence. ... This was shown in the following quote: "When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all, my voice was apt to come out squeaky, or else hoarse and trembling.... It was that I did not want to go.... It also shows that even though she made a pact with her friend, she kept her high school Christmas dance a secret because she did not want to go. The narrator predicted that if she were to tell Lonnie that there was a Christmas dance and she did not want ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The true novel Go Ask Alice is an in-depth story of the life of a girl who gets herself deep into the dark world of hard drugs. ... As their stay lengthened, things started to go bad for them and they had to go long periods without food and basic needs. ... By the end of the novel, she had plans to go to college to study what she wanted to do. ...

• Word Count: 569
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Alice runs the restaurant because Juan is to busy with the bus and the garage, and she is helped by a young employee named Norma. ... (Steinbeck, p.23) and then "Pimples looked at Alice's well-formed behind and then quickly away." ... she asked Pimples tried not to show his disappointment."... Pritchard finds himself going back to his wife. ... Juan, an unhappily married man, decides that once the bus is stuck in the mud, he's going to go to Mexico and leave his whole life, including his wife, in the past. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School