A Study Of The Female Images In Alice Munro’s Short Novels

Alice Munro, hailed as “Canadian Chekov”, is a short-story writer. For herworks as “master of the contemporary short story”, Alice Munro won the2013NobelPrize of Literature. Alice Munro is adept at shaping female images who are charmingand lively. This thesis,based on five copies of Munro’s original short-storycollections, analyzes types of female images with different personalities, features ofher literature expression skills and three underlying causes in shaping female images.To begin with, the author uses textual analysis method to analyze different charactersof three kinds of female images: girls, middle-aged women and old-aged women inAlice Munro’s works.Then, the author applies the critical theories of bothpsychological realism and narrative structuralism to appreciate literature expressionskills used to shape female images in Alice Munro’s works. Lastly, the author, fromthe perspectives of Alice Munro’s life experience and her Scotland familybackground and Canadian cultural background,explains the underlying causes forshaping female images.Alice Munro presents a typical way of contemporary female development in herfictions, from which readers may detect the spiritual journey in the author’s life andhave a deep understanding of her concern for the female’s fates and explorationhuman complexities,thus shedding light on the social realistic significance of herworks.