How I Met My Husband

How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro details a farm girls life with a wealthy family not accustomed to farmers. Mrs. Pebbles makes some  Chris is a pilot who just recently got back from the war, which suggests a major war involving planes just got over. I inferred from this that the story takes place in possibly the late 1940's just after World War II. Edie kind of likes Chirs, but she's a fifteen year old girl, so she isn't smart enough to know what she's feeling. Then things get weird when Chris' "fiance" shows up. I found it funny that his fiance's name is Alice and the author's name is Alice. I think this is intentional. I think the author wants to convey that she did not want to be the girl that fanatically chases a man who doesn't like her. Throughout the story, Munro uses characterization to contribute to the plot. Edie is characterized as naive. First of all, Edie is too naive to know what intimate means: "You don't get a baby from just doing that!" Secondly, Edie thinks that this Chris guy is going to write her and be all romantic after he was already running from his old fiance. However, I did like the ending in which she ends up marrying the mailman. I think it sends a good message that the man a girl overlooks is probably the type of man she will end up marrying.