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Essay / Analysis of Alice Munro's Meneseteung - 700
We can't help but color their story even a little. To get away from Munro, the apostle Luke was a doctor. So doesn't it make sense that his gospel places more emphasis on both Jesus as a healer and the degree of physical punishment he received? Likewise, the storytellers themselves take advantage of our own limited perspective, whether it's Holden Caulfield's immaturity or the conflicting explanations of Rashomon's four characters. Munro is not guilty of any sort of literary misstep in exploiting subjectivity, but rather illustrates it and its effects without condemning or praising it. We create versions of reality and people based on limited perceptions of them, the narrator or author is no more guilty than any of them.