VOICES

Critical Analysis:

Alice Munro is awarded writer from Canada.she won Nobel prize in literature

She specializes in short story writing and is known for her easy-to-read and moving style that explores human

complexities effortlessly.

 She is regarded as one of the greatest contemporary writers of fiction.Her 2004 collection of short stories ‘Runaway’ has eight stories, each of which deal with women and the complex relationships they have with others in their life.

Summary:

The story goes round a girl who is a teenager and as a teen aged girl there are many types questions goes in minds.the story is about a girl who have poor family as her mother is a dancer and her father works in foundry shop .

In that earning the family goes through hardship because most of the money in Doctor’s bills as her sister have tonsils and she and her brother have spectacular bronchitis in every winter

As the story proceeds we come to know that the main character once goes to pool room where all the dancers gathers and have fun there she comes to know actually what her mother does for living and how people there behaves with girls as if they were asset

Here the girl says she remembers of the thought of the girls in pool room and the rude behavior shown towards them and the shouts that had came from them.

One incident that is so awful that once she was moving upstairs for getting coat she saw that two army men were behaving rudely to her and she was snuffling and her booby pins came out of hair so was crying and saying that its not fair.

And she pondered over the voices not the voice of the girl but of men

She hears everyday the voices of the women who cry out for help and she thinks she deserve more better ;more loved because that what every women deserve.

Bibliography:

Pandey, Dr. Sanjay Prasad. “Beauty: Illusion or Reality.” The Achievers Journal 1.1. (2015) .pag. web <theachieversjournal.com>

By Barsha Biswas

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