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"But when you go into the stories and you try to take something out, it's been built so carefully, that every little piece of it matters."
Analysis:
The overall story is not that complicated when read the first time. When the story is analyzed thoroughly it seems more complicated then it seems. This connects with the plan Carl had in purchasing the lane. This seems irrelevant but the true meaning built to this plan is dark and quite evil. The reader doesn't realize this until the end of the story, thats why Alice Munro creates such complex and carefully built stories.

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"inside her there is a lot of darkness, theres a lot of skill and theres just an enormous imagination for what goes on in humanity." 

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"inside her there is a lot of darkness, theres a lot of skill and theres just an enormous imagination for what goes on in humanity." 

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similar to the story "the shinning house", Mrs. Fullerton had gone through many difficult struggles in her life, the first being her husband dying, then her second husband left her. all she wants to do is to tell her story but not many people are willing to hear it. instead of receiving sympathy, she is excluded form her community and from what i can tell, forced to leave.

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"She’s just a wonderfully forthcoming person. At the same time she is very private. She’s a bundle of contradictions."

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"She’s just a wonderfully forthcoming person. At the same time she is very private. She’s a bundle of contradictions."

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Munro's editor thought of Alice in this light and in the same way, this can apply to her characters. Some might even say that Mrs. Fullerton can be described with the same character traits. For example, Mrs. Fullerton has had a a lot of mystery about her life, making her a pretty private person, however she is also willing to share the information about her life such as when she tells Mary all about her husband leaving and never coming back. Normally, you would think that a private person would not shy to talk about themselves, but she was very open about it making her more controversial as a character.

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"She has a way of creating characters that are maybe different from her readers but there's somehow something so immediate about them, and so immediate about the things that they face that you have no choice but to be pulled into Munro's story."

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"She has a way of creating characters that are maybe different from her readers but there's somehow something so immediate about them, and so immediate about the things that they face that you have no choice but to be pulled into Munro's story."

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I think this is very true with the story we read. Munro's character Ms. Fullerton was a strange character but we were still able to relate to her and feel intrigued by her character..

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“But you still have on this day and age, people not respecting and not appreciating the literary talents of women.”

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"Inside her is a lot of darkness and skill and just a lot of imagination for what goes on in humanity."
Analysis:
This quote is suggesting that she has a lot of darkness within her that is her source of inspiration and imagination. It also implies that her short stories are the result of her life experiences and what she has witnessed in her life. In her life she must have seen a and witnessed a lot of significant events that shaped her view of the world and humanity.

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"She has a way of popping in to crucial moments in a life and popping back out again."

Alice Munro knows how to establish a story that shows a lot of meaning and is related to moral life lessons. As readers can notice how the author is very observant about what's happening around her and in most of other people's lives, she applies that to a short story. Where other people needs to write it as a novel, she knows what's important and could put it in to a short story. She writes short stories with deep meaning.

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"She's just perfect at knowing what to skip and what's important...she knew what she was doing within this word length"
Analysis:
It is rather rare to have an author that excels in telling a story within a word length in a concise way so that every bit of the story is important. Much like 'The Shining Houses', Munro was able to elaborate a whole story without taking a whole novel to explain it. Munro knew exactly what needed to be in the plot and what was not needed in order to keep her readers pulled into the story.

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“she is a bundle of contradiction..."
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Mrs. Fullerton is a contradictory character. When she is first introduced to the story you get the sense that she is private, old and frail, very old-fashioned not wanting to move out of her house which she has lived in for 50 years. She is drenched with sadness and uncertainty. However, when the author begins using visual descriptors, you get the sense that she is rather eccentric for her age, "her hair still fuzzy and black, her clothes slatternly-gay, dime store brooches pinned to her raveling sweater", a direct contradiction to the statement above. Although, she seems quite bitter and perhaps even quiet, on the second page of the story you can see that she has some resentment especially toward the supermarket and people who are telling her to move out of her beloved house. She is actually quite direct, not caring whether other people agreee or disagree with her. In the ways stated above, she is similar to Alice Munro.

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"all of the things the other writers would use to fill the gaps between these moments, she doesn't need...this is why she is called the master of this form. she's just perfect at knowing what to skip and what's important." 

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"all of the things the other writers would use to fill the gaps between these moments, she doesn't need...this is why she is called the master of this form. she's just perfect at knowing what to skip and what's important." 

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In the Shining Houses especially, Alice Munro was able to utilise certain elements (in this case it was the setting) to highlight the conflict between the two different generations, within just a few pages of detailed description. Unlike many authors, she was able to build up and convey a certain mood only though the use of setting. She does not include any "irrelevant" information that may prolong the story.

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"Her stories often times involve a relationship between men and women but not always rewarded for going against the grain, for being unconventional and often times punished for that in her story telling". I think this quote accurately describes the story Alice Monro is trying to convey in the Shining House. Mary is forced to follow the crowd and contradict her own feelings despite knowing what they are doing is wrong. The story highlights how little impact the voice of Mary had on the rest of the neighbo

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She has this way of creating characters who are quite different from her readers, but there is something so immediate about them in which you have no choice but to be pulled into Monroe's story.

This is a very true statement about Monroe's writing. She does not introduce any character with exposition or description, but at first she writes as if we know the character. Monroe then visualises how she is and we just have to agree with that. It is very successful because once we know our character, we are already very much involved in the story and where it unfolds. The evil nature of Carl is already planted in our brains from what people think of him without even introducing him. Monoe is a very smart writer.

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"When you try to take something out its been built so carefully that every little piece of it matters."

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"When you try to take something out its been built so carefully that every little piece of it matters."

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In the story The Shining Houses, Alice Munro was able to provide so much detail in every single on of her story.

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“Each story is really a novel. it would take other writers a novel to tell this story… she knew what she was doing within this word length.”

Analysis:
In The Shining Houses, Alice Munro includes meaningful themes such as change and conflict despite it being a short story. For example, Munro uses symbolism to associate Mrs. Fullerton, an older woman, to an older house whereas other residents of The Garden Place are associated with “shining houses”. Munro does not need a novel to be able to create a good story, still incorporating a significant amount of figurative language. Munro knows how to tell a story that is short in length, but deep in meaning.