How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro.
This story made me a bit upset with how the plot misled the reader into a false reality. Situation Irony really comes into play when Edie falls in love with the mailman, whereas the reader expected her to fall in love with Chris Watters This story was kinda touching and it reminded me of the movie Butterfly Effect. This story presented an example of how events from the past can have an unexpected and unforeseen outcome in the future. The fact that the expected outcome that Edie would fall in love with Chris, while hinted that that would in reality never happen, would have made this story into the cliche love story. The unexpected twist at the end of the story, while disappointing in a way, was refreshing because it did not fall into the typical love story genre that we are all so accustomed to.
"'I'm going to write you a letter. I'll tell you where I am and maybe you can come and see me. Would you like that? Okay then. You wait'" (Munro, 142).
I think that it is an important part of the story to realize that Edie is recalling her past experiences from a future perspective. That might cause some bias to show through in her memories to point out the fact that she was a naive child when she met Chris. Bias which hints to the eventuality that Edie would never have any kind of relationship with Chris Watters.
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