Review Of Alice Munro's Short Story 'Wenlock Edge'

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Nina the Castle-Builder
The young beautiful girl Nina is the intricate character that Alice Munro reviews in her short story “Wenlock Edge”. Nina living in a fantasy that one day she will live in a castle with her prince happily ever after. In this story, Nina turns some lives upside down with her adventures of following her dreams. Nina is the classic example of a girl that lives with Cinderella complex, where her emotional instability falling apart with her castle.
First, this short story is about two college student Nina and the narrator that became roommates and friends. When Nina became friend with the protagonist, she told her about her complicated relationship with a rich old man, Mr. Purvis. Where he controls and manipulates her do …show more content…

But at this time, Nina treat her new friend with a sarcastic behavior. She took advantage of her new friend to use as a bait to Mr. Purvis to run away. In addition, Ernie the narrator’ relative falls in love with Nina when he met her in the city library. Occasionally, Nina starts to believe that Ernie was a new opportunity to build a new castle and protect her from Mr. Purvis. Nina decides to live with Ernie where she starts to dream in getting married and have children again. When the narrator went to Ernie’s house, Nina told her that if she get pregnant and have a girl will be named after her. However, Nina’s dream did not stand for a week. Because the narrator takes revenge of her of being humiliated by Mr. Purvis. As a result, Nina returned to Mr. Purvis and left Ernie with a broken heart.
In conclusion, the character of Nina shows how a girl can be negatively affected by the loss of a father, being abandoned by a mother and husband. As a result, her complicated relationships interferes and damage others people’s lives, which everyone get involve with her will be negatively affected too. Nina was living with the Cinderella complex where she dream to find her prince that will protect her and living in a castle happily ever

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