The 'Invisibility of Poverty' in Alistair MacLeod's "No Great Mischief"
Paper responding to a quote from Michael Ignatieff on the invisibility of poverty in Canadian society, arguing that while the author describes the great gap between the narrator's way of life and the world from which he came in Cape Breton Island, that the people concerned did not view it as poverty. Reflection on what poverty means, and notes on how the narrator, Alexander MacDonald, does not find poverty invisible for her has known it and stays in touch with a brother who lives in alcoholic poverty in Toronto. More important to this story is the Highland Scottish family's sense of membership and special descent, as compared to a mainstream society of new divisions of wealth and class.
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