We read literature to explore more about what the world is like and also be open to endless different interpretations of different works. We read literature to help ourselves create a better understanding of literature. Women's literature is basically a tool used by women themselves to express on how they feel and write about what they have experienced throughout their lives. Women will write about the social issues they have faced in society as they have been consistently been subjected to problems and been on the receiving end of sexism and before things such as having rights to do certain things or even so just having rights in general.
Alice Munro uses a lot of elements in her work which represent the common lives of women. She isn't necessarily a feminist but she does write about the realistic experiences that are very common to women such as being a housewife and living the everyday life of a woman. She doesn't exactly write about all the struggles of women but she does make the character similar in real life to other women. She puts a lot of thought and depth behind her characters and it's of the things that I like about her work. She represents her characters in good detail along with a good plot like Runaway or Family Furnishings. She starts off her stories in the middle of an issue and then lets the story progress which is something unique.
Reading Munro's work continues to make me realize more about the gender divide in society and see the difference between the roles of both women and men. I see how women have always been the ones who have been doing the dishes of the household and when a man does that part, it seems a bit ''awkward''. This is definitely due to the gender divide and some other things I learnt was how literature can make you realize about things like these. I have not read so much literature so therefore by reading her stories I have been more exposed to how people deliver the messages they want to send and why people read literature to a great extent.
Alice Munro uses a lot of elements in her work which represent the common lives of women. She isn't necessarily a feminist but she does write about the realistic experiences that are very common to women such as being a housewife and living the everyday life of a woman. She doesn't exactly write about all the struggles of women but she does make the character similar in real life to other women. She puts a lot of thought and depth behind her characters and it's of the things that I like about her work. She represents her characters in good detail along with a good plot like Runaway or Family Furnishings. She starts off her stories in the middle of an issue and then lets the story progress which is something unique.
Reading Munro's work continues to make me realize more about the gender divide in society and see the difference between the roles of both women and men. I see how women have always been the ones who have been doing the dishes of the household and when a man does that part, it seems a bit ''awkward''. This is definitely due to the gender divide and some other things I learnt was how literature can make you realize about things like these. I have not read so much literature so therefore by reading her stories I have been more exposed to how people deliver the messages they want to send and why people read literature to a great extent.
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