Post-World War II Literature Alice Murno Alice Murno’s short stories show her views on relationships, the past, and the role of women in society. Her story “Boys and Girls” specifically deals with a girl trying to escape the domestic role expected of her and win her father’s acceptance as an equal. Munro offers sweeping landscapes of country settings and simple characters, “my father and I walk gradually down a long, shabby sort of street…in Tuppertown, an old town on Lake Huron”. The language of her stories reflects this setting and the period she writes about, the 20th century, particularly the 1930s.
Anne Carson Carson’s “The Glass Essay” is a real nail bite to read. Carson offers perspective on her relationship with her mother, father, and former lover. She evaluates herself through self reflection and provides the reader with vivid imagery representing different facets of her persona cast in “nudes” like metaphorical art. Her work creatively weaves modern language with snips of quotations of the past. Post modern poetry such as Carson’s often present narratives interrupted with prose or quotations providing a fragmented quality t the work. The language of Carson’s personal inner dialogue sharply contrasts the Victorian formality of Bronte’s quotations from Wuthering Heights.
