LITERATURE

How I Met My Husband - Alice Munro

How I Met My Husband - Alice Munro

Introduction

Alice Munro's story “ How I Met My Husband” was published in her book, “Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You” in 1974. The story is told from a first-person perspective, and follows the vibrant fifteen-year old Edie, as she joins her position at the Peebles' rich household as “hired help”. The narration is as though Edie is now an adult and is looking back at her life, hence the connection with the title of the story. Being at such a young, impressionable age, she ...