Love Unit 1

How I Met My Husband
Alice Munro

In How I Met My Husband, Munro invokes a great deal of thought for the reader. I felt as though Munro also had a variety of characters in her work. Munro used the literary technique of a round character in How I Met My Husband. Edie was the round character in this work. At the beginning of the story, I thought that she was more of an innocent, laid-back character. However, as the story continued forward, she started to show more complex qualities and began to show more emotion for other characters such as Chris. As the story neared the ending, she also began to make a few life revelations which contributed to her being a round character. By developing a mature, in-depth thought process, she was clearly displaying characteristics of a round character. Near the end of the story, Edie realizes what kind of woman she wants to become. "If there were women all through life waiting, and women busy and not waiting, I knew which I had to be. Even though there might be things the second kind of women have to pass up and never know about, it still is better"(Munro, 147). This quote indicates that Edie knew that she needed to be the type of woman that did not let her life become consumed by hopelessness.