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A 3 page paper which examines why the character in Alice Munro’s short story Meneseteung goes insane at the end of the story. No additional sources cited.
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essentially conjectures about the life of this particular woman from this region, almost like a detective or romance writer, delving into her poetry and what is known about her life,
and coming up with a speculative story. As the story progresses the woman struggles with life in many ways, until she apparently loses her mind in the end. The following
paper examines why the woman, Alameda, goes insane. Munros Meneseteung In the beginning of the story one sees that Alameda loses much of her family in the first
years in this new land. She indicates that Alameda was 14 when she, along with her mother and father and a younger brother and sister. The "third summer" they lived
there her "brother and sister were taken ill of a prevelant fever and died within a few days of each other" (Munro). Her mother never seemed to regain any of
her vigor after that and three years later she was dead. So, by the time Alameda was 21 her mother and her siblings were dead. She then took care of
her father for 12 years until he died. The narrator indicates that Alameda stated, "I have delighted in verse and have occupied myself-and sometimes allayed my grief" in writing
and prose, examining her world, and the beauty of nature, in her writings (Munro). She was not a woman that was perhaps normal in her times because she was not
immersed in domestic chores and skills, although she was apparently known for her sweets as an old maid. She was a woman of intellect, a woman who was more like
her father perhaps than mother. And she was a woman with enough money, left by her father, to actually survive on her own. As she grew older, however, she
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