Part one of term paper
ALICE MUNRO’S IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER CHARACTERISTIC APPROACH To try to trace Alice Munro’s narrative techniques to any particular development in the short story would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from careful observations as are many of her other short stories. In her short stories, it is as thou ...

Part two of term paper
... Columbia. The story, , found in Open Secrets, exemplifies Munro’s characteristic approach to short story writing as it explores central character’s lives that are revealed from a combination of first person narrative and third person narrative. By using both narratives, Munro adds realism, some autobiographical information about her own life in the short stories, as the stories are also based on fiction as can it be found in earlier written short stories. Since many of her stories are b ...