The New Yorker: Fiction
Lauren Groff Reads Alice Munro
Jun 22, 2011
Alice Munro, award-winning Canadian author, discusses her short story 'Axis' with Lauren Groff. They explore Munro's mastery of time and structure, as well as feminist themes and narrative techniques. They also delve into the significance of Avi's dream and the hidden meaning behind it.
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- Alice Munro creates a chiastic structure with a close but distant point of view to tell the story and retroactively reveals its meaning.
- The story explores the role of women in society, their struggles with pregnancy scares, and the limited opportunities for independence.
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The complex structure of the story
Alice Monroe creates a chiastic structure, with the beginning balancing the end. The story jumps from 50 years ago to the present, using a close but distant point of view to tell the story. The final moment retroactively reveals the meaning of the story.
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