Alice Munro

A detailed Summary of Alice Munro

In her short stories, "Rich as Stink" and "Royal Beatings", author Alice Munro uses a

limited omniscient point of view. These stories are very much alike in all aspects of point of

A limited omniscient point of view is one which uses the third person while talking about

all its characters. However, it has only a limited point of view. That is to say that the reader

only has access to certain character's thoughts. The fact that the stories are written in third

person is apparent because both main characters are referred to as either she or their name. The

quotes "Karin reached down and got some things out of her backpack." ("Rich as Stink" 249)

and "Rose and her father soon got beyond anything presentable" ("Royal Beatings" 1220) are

Rose. Karin and Rose are not only the main characters of these two stories but they also are the

your hands it was a dead giveaway. It was so hard to get out. (280)

Another commonality between the two stories is that they are told retrospectively without the

fairly frequently. An example from " Royal Beatings" would be when Rose is telling the reader

point of view, the embedded narratives and the retrospective nature of the stories help to

was when she was living by herself in Toronto." (1234)

All of these techniques help to form the point of view of a story. The limited omniscient

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Category: English

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