Munro’s Trademarks

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class. Her dislike of math class was solely based on the fact that she didn't like our math teacher. She thought that our math teacher was a horrible teacher who couldn't teach and her attitude problems. It was quit astonishing how I could only concentrate on Ms. Smith's positive attributes while my best friend was only able to the negative things of our teacher. Now that I think back I realize that our grade eighth teacher had both the positive and negative attributes. The only reason why my best friend and I had two very different opinions about her personality was because of the way we perceived her.
Likewise in the book “Lives of girls and women” Munro presents characters in an ambivalent way because it’s for more realistic. The three ambivalent characters that I want to talk about are Uncle Bill, Uncle Benny and Naomi.
The first ambivalent character that I found was Uncle Bill. Uncle Bill was generous to Ada and Del on her visit, but had a corrupt past and present. He was ...

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bought so many things such as coffee, canned fruit, pudding mixes, macaroni dinners, figs, cheese, dates, powders, tinned oysters and so many other stuffs, and that wasn’t all, he also stopped at the pastry shop and bought lots of things from there too. At this point Del was afraid to look at anything, in fear that he would buy it. She thought to her self,
“I saw now that too much really might be too much. Even
Owen might in the end have been depressed by this idiot
largesse, which threw the whole known system of rewards
and delights out of kilter.”
(Munro, p. 94)
Some days later Ada burst out to Del in tears and said that Uncle Bill was dying and that he left them 300 ...

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