Edie is a young, naive girl who starts her first job away from home. While working, she meets and becomes infatuated with a man named Chris. However, she eventually realizes he will not send her the letter he promised. This experience teaches her the difference between infatuation and genuine love. She then begins dating the mailman who had always smiled at her, and he becomes her husband.

1. Respond to Peers:
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ initial posts. Each
response should be at least 75 words in length and should
address two or more of the following points:
• Do you agree with your classmates’ perspectives? Why, or
why not? Be specific.
• Ask a specific question to encourage further discussion on
the topic.
• Challenge your classmates’ interpretation of literature
and/or point of view.
• Do a small amount of research and share what you learn
with your peers about the topic discussed in this post.
• Krysten Younger
75 Word count Response
Short Story: How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro
Core Conflict

2. Edie is a young, uneducated, teenage girl working her first job
away from home. She has often thought about romance but has
never experienced it as she talks about it in conversation with
her friend, “Muriel said her two girl cousins used to try with a
toilet paper roll that one of them was a boy. We wouldn't do
anything like that; just lay and wondered.”(Munro 1974) She
later learns the difference between genuinely loving someone
versus being infatuated with someone.
Theme I believe the theme to be coming of age. As we grow
older, we become wiser. We learn new things every day. In
Edie’s case, she learns about what is expected of her at her new
job working for the Peebles’. While working for them, she
meets Chris. What she, later, comes to realize is that he was
never going to send her a letter like he said he was going to.
She had this infatuation with him that she could not let go.
After realizing that she then goes on a date with her now-
husband, the mailman who always looked forward to her smile.
Theme
I believe the theme to be coming of age. As we grow older, we
become wiser. We learn new things every day. In Edie’s case,
she learns about what is expected of her at her new job working
for the Peebles’. While working for them, she meets Chris.
What she, later, comes to realize is that he was never going to
send her a letter like he said he was going to. She had this
infatuation with him that she could not let go. After realizing
that she then goes on a date with her now-husband, the mailman
who always looked forward to her smile.

3. Elements/Techniques:
1. First-person point of view: Edie, the main character, is the
narrator as she tells the story from her perspective. Her
perspective gives the reader insight into the character herself
such as her age and how naive she is.
2. Imagery: You can imagine the bathroom and how the
carpet she steps onto feels when she says, “The light had a rosy
cast, and the mat sank under your feet like snow, except that it
was warm.”(Munro 1974)
3. Dramatic Irony: After Chris leaves it does not take long to
realize that he will never send her a letter. The story takes place
during the summer and Edie does not come to understand Chris
is not going to write her until, “One day walking back with the
hydro bill stuck in my hand, that was all, looking across at the
fairgrounds with the full-blown milkweed and dark teasels, so
much like fall, it just struck me: No letter was ever going to
come.”(Munro 1974) The entire time leading up to that, not long
after Chris had left, would you already know that there would
never be a letter.
Reference:
Clugston, R. W. (2014). Journey into literature (2nd ed.)
Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/
• Keesha Paul

4. 75 Word Count Response
Describe the core conflict represented in the story.
The core conflict of the story was the younger son wanted his
share of money and the father gave it to him. He left home and
run through all of his money and became broke and was
starving. So he returned home to his father.
Describe the theme of the story. The Theme of the story was the
younger son thought he could make it on his own because he
had money, but he had no discipline. He left his loving father
but than had to return home because he had no money and was
starving. He thought about how foolish he were, and came clean
to his father about how non deserving he was to be called his
son. But in the end, the father was happy he was there and threw
a party.
Select three literary elements/techniques in the story and
describe them.
The Climax was when the son returned home to live with his
father and the father was happy.
The Rising Point was when the older brother learned that his
brother was back home and a party was being thrown for his
younger brother. He became very angry with his father and told
his how long he had been serving him and how he had threw
money away. He was very upset.

5. The Situational Irony was when the son left and the father didn't
know if he would ever see his younger son again; but he did
return home. "Situational Irony is when a situation ends very
different than expected" (Clugston, R. W. (2014)
Explain how the elements/techniques illustrate the theme and
conflict expressed in the story.
I think the elements/techniques illustrates the theme and
conflict expressed in the story because it leaves the
reader/audience in suspense until everything starts to unfold.
For example, The son returns home, the shocker of the older
brother to learn that his baby brother was home, and the fact
that the father doesn't know if his son will return home.
References
Clugston, R. W. (2014). (Links to an external site.)Links to an
external site.Journey into literature (2nd ed.) [Electronic
version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu