The main characters in Alice Munro's stories are considered different than normal people in their community. However the main character is usually the narrator telling the story from the future. The characters judge themselves and think about past events. Sometimes this is illustrated with statements of secondary characters. All of the stories include a past incident before the time of the main plot, but sometimes not in order. The reader is also given a piece …showed first 75 words of 3304 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3304 total…various situations that could have been more controlled if there had been more of an "Ounce of Prevention," or if the characters had been more "commodious," working hard to be more like the people around them expect them to be. Instead, they get more involved with life, go more places and do more things, exposing themselves to public gossip, or pretending, like Prue telling people her latest story about herself, that whatever happens doesn't matter.