Abstract
Alice Munro, Canadian author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, has written a number of short stories. Her short story, “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, circles around an old couple, Grant and Fiona. The story tells of an evolution of love under the background of aging. The love and aging interweave and collide with each other to generate the great theme of the story—love evolves with time and it will finally defeat aging. This paper attempts to analyze the components and structure of love at different stages and illustrate how love evolves in time and how it survives the battle against aging.
Highlights
Alice Munro, a Canadian short-story writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, which has a significant meaning for both Canadian literature and the short-story circle
Munro’s short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, from her 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, tells of a marriage that goes through different stages of life
In “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, Munro interweaves love with time and aging and leads us through a journey of aging
Summary
Alice Munro, a Canadian short-story writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013, which has a significant meaning for both Canadian literature and the short-story circle. Munro’s short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, from her 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, tells of a marriage that goes through different stages of life. In “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, Munro interweaves love with time and aging and leads us through a journey of aging. How to cite this paper: Wei, P., & Tang, Y. A Study of Aging and Love in “The Bear Came over the Mountain”. We attempt to illustrate how love evolves in time and how it survives the battle against aging
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