How I Met My Husband

How I Met My Husband
Jamie Field
ENG 125 Introduction to Literature
Prof. Megan Pope
May 26, 2012

The story “How I Met My Husband” by Alice Munro is about a young girl named Edie who gets her first job working for Dr. and Mrs. Peebles at their house outside of town. The whole story is told from a first person point of view with Edie being the main character. You can tell this story is told from young Edie’s point of view because when the author writes Edie’s thoughts or actions he uses words such as “I” or “my”. For instance in our text the story reads,” This was my first job—working for Dr. and Mrs. Peebles, who had bought an old house out on the Fifth Line, about five miles out of town.
“ (Clugston, 2010) Alice Munro wrote this story in first person so the reader could really understand the main character’s actions and feelings and therefore you get a better understanding of the story. In the story had been told from a different point of view or from another characters point of view the theme of the story would be much different. In the story Edie meets a pilot named Chris Waters by chance one day when the Peebles are out. Edie falls in love with him only to find out that he is engaged to a woman who ends up staying with the Peebles. You can tell that Edie really likes this man because she is constantly watching the couple together and especially one night when they get home the story reads,” All that happened was that Chris got out on one side and she got out on the other and they walked off separately—him towards the fairgrounds and her towards house. I got back in bed and imagined about me coming home with him, not like that.” (Culgston, 2010) Edie is imagining what it would be like if she was engaged to Chris instead of the other woman. The next day Edie goes over to see Chris and tell him about the picnic that his fiancé went on and end up sharing an intimate moment with him. The fiancé finds out and calls Edie loose and all kinds of names. Chris...