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Alice Munro - Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage

Dimecres, 08/10/2014

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is the title story of a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001.

The story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" is about Johanna, a plain, poor, unmarried woman, works as a housekeeper for Mr. McCauley and his granddaughter Sabitha. Sabitha's mother is dead, and her father, Ken Boudreau, lives elsewhere in poverty, frequently pleading with his father-in-law for money. She is friends with Edith, a blacksmith's daughter who feels bored with her constricting blue-collar lifestyle. Edith devises a hoax in which she and Sabitha forge love letters from Sabitha's father to Johanna. Johanna, convinced by the letters that Ken will marry her, uses her substantial savings to travel to his remote location in rural Canada. She discovers that Ken has fallen ill, and, lovingly, she nurses him back to health. Having realized that Ken cannot control his own life, Johanna takes charge and arranges for them to start a new life.

 




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