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Lives of Girls and Women is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. [1] [2] Although described and marketed as a novel, in form it resembles a collection of interlinked short stories, with discrete chapters narrated by the main character, Del Jordan. [3]
- Alice Munro
- 254 pp.
- 1971
- 1971
11 feb 1996 · Lives of Girls & Women: Directed by Ronald Wilson. With Tanya Allen, Wendy Crewson, Peter MacNeill, Amos Crawley.
- (72)
- Drama
- Ronald Wilson
- 1996-02-11
- Introduction
- Author Biography
- Plot Summary
- Media Adaptations
- Characters
- Topics For Further Study
- Themes
- Style
- Historical Context
- Compare & Contrast
Alice Munro's only novel, Lives of Girls and Women, which was published in 1971, is a fictionalized coming-of-age work that is sometimes described as autobiographical. Munro is best known as a short story writer, whose work focuses on women's lives. Lives of Girls and Women consists of an episodic series of loosely linked short stories, all connect...
Alice Munrowas born Alice Laidlaw on July 10, 1931 just outside Wingham, a small town in western Ontario, Canada. Her father, Robert, was an unsuccessful breeder of silver foxes, whose business failed completely during the depression. Her mother, Ann, had been a school teacher at one time and later helped her husband sell the pelts from their foxes...
The Flats Road
The narrator, Del, uses this first chapter of Lives of Girls and Womento briefly introduce her family and setting. Del lives at the end of Flats Road, which is just outside town but not quite in the country. Del lives with her mother, Addie, who hates living in the country and envisions herself more attuned to city living, and her father, who is comfortable with their semi-country existence. The narrator also shares her home with her younger brother, Owen, and a dog, Major. The area in which...
Lives of Girls and Womenwas filmed for television in 1994 by Paragon Entertainment."Baptizing," a chapter from Lives of Girls and Women, was adapted and filmed for CBC's Performanceseries in 1975. The film stars Munro's daughter Jenny.Art Chamberlain
Mr. Chamberlain is the newscaster on Jubilee's radio broadcasts and a World War IIveteran. He is also Fern's suitor and a frequent visitor at Del's house. He is aware of Del's growing sexual awareness and curiosity, and after taking several opportunities to feel her breasts and buttocks, he takes her out into the woods and masturbates in front of her. Mr. Chamberlain does not attempt to seduce Del and so he would not see himself as a sexual predator, but she is 14 years old and does not fully...
Uncle Craig
Uncle Craig is a life-long bachelor, whose life work is compiling a vastly detailed history of their town and the genealogy of the family. He is the brother of Del's paternal grandfather. Uncle Craig's death and funeral occupies a significant portion of Del's early narration, since grappling with death in any form is a curiosity that must be understood. Del inherits Uncle Craig's thousand page manuscript, and because she does not value that kind of writing, she allows its destruction.
Del
Del is the narrator. At points throughout the narration, she provides the reader with brief information about her age only through references about the grade she is attending in school at that moment. The stories that she tells are largely about her coming of age, as she learns about her mother, friendships, and men through a series of relationships and experiences. Del does not always tell her story in a chronological narration but through brief glimpses of time that shifts back and forth wi...
Research rural life in both Ontario, Canada, and the United States during World War II. Focus particularly on how people lived and worked during this period of time. Prepare a poster listing the si...Munro uses events and people from her past to create characters and plots in her stories. Choose one of your own memories and use it as the basis for a short story. Like Munro, you should change th...Del's mother, Addie, predicts that in the future, women will have more freedoms and choices than during her lifetime. Research women's lives in the 1940s and at the beginning of the twenty-first ce...Much of Del's life centers around her time at school. Students in Del's high school could choose between studying academic subjects or vocational subjects, depending on whether or not they intended...Fantasy
Del uses fantasy as a way to understand the relationship between girls and boys and later, men and women. In her first crush on a boy from her eighth-grade class, Del daydreams about Frank Wales and imagines him walking her home. In these daydreams, Frank wears his costume from the operetta and sings to Del. Later, when Del is a freshman in high school, she begins fantasizing about Art Chamberlain, trying to fill in the gaps of her knowledge about sexual experience between what she has read i...
Memory
Del understands early in life that memories are fluid entities. In the chapter "Princess Ida," Del tells the story of her mother's childhood, as her mother has told it to her. Addie's childhood is one of privation and isolation. Addie's mother is described as a religious zealot, so focused on her beliefs that her daughter lacks the basic necessities of food and love. But then Addie's brother, Bill, visits, and Del hears an entirely different story of parental love, gentleness and nurturing. B...
Religion
In the chapter, "Age of Faith," Del searches for answers about whether God is real. She describes each of the four town churches and then visits the Anglican Church, although it is not her family's church. Del is drawn to the theatricality of the Anglican service, which she attends at first without her mother's knowledge and later, with her mother's disapproval. Del's desire to discover God is linked to her experiences with death. In a previous chapter, she has described the death of Uncle Cr...
Depth of Characterization
Characterization is the process by which the author creates a life-like person from his or her imagination. To accomplish this, the author provides the character with personality traits that help define who she will be and how she will behave in a given situation. Madeleine Poole is a complex character, whose role in the novel takes only a few paragraphs, but her influence is important in how Del sees the relationship between men and women. Characters can range from simple stereotypical figur...
Autobiographical Fiction
Fiction refers to any story that is created out of the author's imagination, rather than factual events. Sometimes the characters in a fictional piece are based on real people, but their ultimate form and the way they respond to events is solely the creation of the author. In Lives of Girls and Women the characters are fictional, but they are based on people or character types from Munro's life. Because Munro initially titled the novel "Real Lives," there has been speculation that her book is...
Künstlerroman Novel
A Künstlerroman novel relates the story of a protagonist who labors from childhood to maturity in an effort to come to terms with his or her artistic talent. In Munro's novel, Del tries to understand and express her talent as a writer. This term is also used to refer to James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. This kind of novel is also sometimes called an "Apprenticeship Novel," which relates the story of a young person who is trying to find his or her place in the world. Furth...
1940s Village Schools
In Lives of Girls and Women, many of the events that Del describes are part of her experience in school. School life in rural Ontario in the 1940s was very different than it is for students attending school in the twenty-first century. The latter part of the 1930s had been a time of school reform in Ontario, and Del would have experienced the new trend of progressivism in her elementary and secondary classes. Rather than prepare students for an academic education, the emphasis in schools focu...
1940s: The Ontario Teachers' Federation approves the principle of equal pay for male and female teachers.1970s: In Canada, female university graduates earn 4,000 to 7,000 dollars less than men with...1940s: Dating for high-school age boys and girls involves strict curfews that are designed to help protect young women from pregnancy. The rate of unmarried pregnancies is very low, less than 1 per...1940s: The parents of the baby boomers get married for the first time at the average age of 28.5 (for men) and 25.9 (for women).1970s: The baby boomers marry at slightly younger ages than their par...Overview. User Reviews. Cast & Crew. Releases. Related. Share on. facebook. twitter. Synopsis. In this adaptation of Alice Munro's novel, a young girl comes of age in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Del Jordan: Tanya Allen. Ada Jordan: Wendy Crewson. Tom Jordan: Peter MacNeill. Owen Jordan: Amos Crawley.
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10 mag 2024 · The Lives Of Girls And Women. Details: 1994, Rest of the world. Direction:Ronald Wilson. With: Tanya Allen and Wendy Crewson.
Lives of Girls and Women. 1994. 2 hr 0 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. In this adaptation of Alice Munro's novel, a young girl comes of age in a small Ontario town in the 1950s. Del Jordan:...
