"How I Met My [second] Husband"

"He always tells the children the story of how I went after him by sitting by the mailbox every day, and naturally I laugh and let him, because I like for people to think what pleases them and makes them happy" (pg 146).

Alright, alright... I have to give Alice Munro mad props for confusing me beyond belief by her witty use of structure. With a title like "How I Met My Husband," I was very confused when I got to the last paragraph and still had no idea how she met her husband.  The order was chronological, but it still managed to throw me for a loop during the entire plot line.  Okay, so I was not so stupid that I actually thought Chris was going to be the husband, but I really started to second guess my pride when it went so long without anything.  The suspense that this prolonged anecdote creates is pure genius!  Not only does Edie introduce a barrage of characters and situations where a new lover really could emerge, but she even went so far as to understate the situations surrounding her real husband.

That sort of plays off of her last statement too.  Edie likes to tell people what they like to hear because she was never really given the confidence that she needed when she was younger.  This really played into the sympathy I gave her just because she did not ever show the pride in herself to assert herself.

The End.

"How I Met My Husband"

"No, not impossible.  If I thought about Chris's face when he said he was going to write me, it was impossible, but if I forgot that and thought about the actual tin mailbox, empty, it was plain and true" (pg 146).

In this post I will be evaluating question number five which asks about the compatibility between Chris and Edie.

Okay, so Edie is a young female who works basically as a servant.  She has been mentally scarred of sorts from her previous failings, especially in school.  From what I can tell, she would do anything to feel loved.  This is further encouraged by her mistaken ideas of sex and kissing- now do I have to set my blog as an "adult blog?"  To be a good fit for Edie, you just have to be really desperate and enjoy exploiting little girls!

Our first contestant is Chris, a veteran who enjoys giving complete strangers a ride in his plane that he nearly crashed landed.  Our dear friend Chris lives a nomadic life that leads him wherever he feels that he could make a quick pay check off of the money of bored citizens.  Chris is a smoker, but don't think that means he doesn't enjoy a quick make out session in his tent between rides in his airplane.

Oh Edie, how could you fall for Chris?  Creepy stalkers are creepy.