The Unrealistic Representation of Adolescence in Alice Munro's An Ounce of Cure
Alice Munro's short story "An Ounce of Cure" depicts the events surrounding a pivotal experience in the teenage years of a young woman growing up in a small town. It is a story whose narrator is both charming and irrepressible in a manner not unlike Canada's most famous young female heroine: Anne of Green Gables. Like the stories of Anne Shirley, Munro depicts her characters and their setting in terms of an ironically disengaged and unrealistic vision of adolescence. This essay will argue that this unrealistically light, ironic quality is essential to maintaining the humourous tone of the short story and its depiction of events that, from another perspective, could be represented as emotionally devastating and even tragic. 5 pgs. No sources.
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