This essay analyzes Alice Munro’s short story “Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd” from the collection The Moons of Jupiter (1982), focusing on the ways in which the story dramatizes the clash between the pervasive vitality of the two protagonists and the normalizing acquiescence prescribed by the elderly care facility where they reside.
"Resisting Acquiescence: Institutionalization and Late-life Friendship in Alice Munro's 'Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd'"
FRANCESCATO, Simone
2016-01-01
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This essay analyzes Alice Munro’s short story “Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd” from the collection The Moons of Jupiter (1982), focusing on the ways in which the story dramatizes the clash between the pervasive vitality of the two protagonists and the normalizing acquiescence prescribed by the elderly care facility where they reside.
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