She feels the need to be accepted and is very emotionally attached. This is a deviation from her normally calm, collected, and objective observances. For a moment, she becomes weak and allows herself to become infatuated with someone she does not need for her happiness. When the narrator decides to like Martin, she puts her heart on the line. She is not familiar with being complimented or feeling special. During her time with Martin she opens herself up, and when she does, he leaves her (452). He is not trying to be cruel, this is just how relationships are during teenage years; they are fickle and never last. However, the narrator does not understand this. She struggles with returning back to the person she was before Martin Collingwood came into her life. Her "plucky and independent" (486) personality is hiding within her somewhere. She has just not had the chance to let her true self show through.
Her inattentive mother does not help her position in the least. The narrator is looking for guidance in this situation, and she can only get a detached response, which is far from the sympathy and guidance she was looking for and needs. The young girl is faced with a time of emotional loneliness when she takes matters into her own hands. She begins her attempt at redefining herself by defying old values that had been imposed upon her. When she decides to get drunk, she is probably subconsciously rebelling against her parents", particularly her mother's strict rules against alcohol. .
The narrator is not sure of how to handle her emotions. She tries various different tactics as emotional outlets. She ends up following her crush, and hanging out in places where he might find her (452). She even goes as far as to take a whole bottle of aspirin. However, while taking the bottle of aspirin her true character shines through and she abandons the idea (452). She tortures herself endlessly by remembering exactly how he used to kiss her (452).
In Alice Munro's "An Ounce of Cure" she is endangered by her innocence. Her innocence is disastrous because she knows nothing about alcohol. In her life, she had never seen anyone besides her father drink, and he would drink only a beer outside the house. Her innocence becomes a danger to her once s...
An ounce of cure is equivalent to two glasses of liquor. Or at least, this is what the author, Alice Munro, is trying to tell us. She drops many hints during the course of the story that suggest that alcohol solves all your problems. Liquor is tempting when one needs to forget about his or her "hum...
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