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How I Met My Husband

 

            
             According to Edie's view in the story "How I Met My Husband" by Alice Munro I looked at the view point of the narrator. In this story the narrator was Edie herself. She tells the story through insights of her feelings according to the good and bad things that happen to her.
             Throughout the story she experiences many different feelings from things that made her feel good to things that made her feel horrible. She tells us that she loved being left alone in the house to do her work when she felt like it. She also states how she loved the lighting in thekitchen and the double sink. Then she compares it to her life before at home where their sink had a "rag-plugged hole" and an "oil cloth-covered table by light of a coal-oil lamp". With this little bit of information we know that work at the Peebles is a lot easier than at home.
             We find out later Edie is accused of being intimate with Chris. Edie had her own opinion of what being intimate meant. She thought it was kissing, which shows her immaturity and the fact that she had never been in a relationship. This is another insight wighout her coming out and saying it.
             Once again we jump ahead in the story to her waiting on the letter from Chris. Edies says, "The mail come everyday except Sunday, between one-thirty and two in the afternoon, a good time for me because Mrs. Peebles was always having her nap. I would get the kitchen all cleaned and then go up to the mailbox and sit in the grass, waiting." In those few sentences we can fighre out that she was very eager to hear from Chris. Her statement,"I was perfectly happy waiting," is another insight to her feelings without waying it. Then we read that she knows the letter isn't coming and she hurts, but realizes that she doesn't want to make that journey to the mailbox day after day and year after year. That is the last real insight she gives on her feelings.
             In conclusion we know through Edie's feelings on how she felt about her work, her immaturity, and her long wait for her letter to arrive, she is without a doubt the narrator of this story.


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