Love Unit Blog #1

How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro

Alice Munro's How I Met My Husband, surprised more than I originally expected. Initially, I believed that Edie would win over Chris, stealing him away from his unwanted fiance. Later, I came to realize that Edie is no different to Chris than any other girl he has fooled around with. The fact that he was planning on abandoning his fiance should have been a clear sign to Edie that this man was by no means committed or moral. Regardless, Edie found herself believing that Chris would write to her and one day come back to see her, but of course this never occurred. I was also very surprised by Edie's brutal honesty about what happened between her and Chris. I never expected her to admit to her relationship with Chris, let alone confess the affair to his fiance! As the story came to a close, I found that the tone shifted from exciting and romantic to dull and uninteresting. The whole story is based around Chris, and then at then end does Munro sneak in a quick page and half about how she met her husband. It's almost as if Munro settled to be with the man she married, while her true love and passion resided with Chris. Munro states, referring to her husband, "He always tells the children the story of how I went after him by sitting by the mailbox everyday, and naturally I laugh and let him, because I like for people to think what pleases them and makes them happy" (Munro, 146). It is ironic, because her husband believes Edie was waiting for him everyday at the mailbox, but in reality, she was waiting for a letter from another man.