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The Pursuit of Happiness: A Study of Alice Munro’s Fiction

ISSN: 0362-3319.
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Oleh : CAROL L. BERAN, Saint Mary’s College of California (cberan@stmarys-ca.edu)
Dibuat : 2012-06-19, dengan 1 file

Keyword : The Pursuit of Happiness: A Study of Alice Munro’s Fiction
Subjek : The Pursuit of Happiness: A Study of Alice Munro’s Fiction
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The theme of happiness in the short fiction of Alice Munro evokes four contexts of


signification. Contemporary North American popular culture holds happiness as a realizable


but elusive ideal. In the generic conventions of fiction, happiness functions as a goal


and as a sign of closure; stories end when the characters get married and live happily ever


after. Thomas Jefferson (1776/1962) declared the pursuit of happiness, together with life


and liberty, to be unalienable, God-given rights; modern commentators hold that the difference between “peace, order, and good government” and “life, liberty, and the pursuit


of happiness” encapsulates a key distinction between the cultures of Canada and the


United States. Religious and philosophical traditions identify happiness with faith and the


highest good.


In her interview with John Metcalf (1972, p. 57), Munro noted that she reads Cosmopolitan


magazine. We can assume, therefore, that she has looked at countless articles


detailing how women can achieve happiness in various aspects of their lives and is


conscious of the pressures popular culture exerts on women to desire happiness, particularly


happiness in relationships, which can be achieved, the magazine promises, by


buying the most fashionable clothes, wearing the newest types of make up, caring for the


skin with the most advanced products, sporting the most seductive perfumes, and following


the latest trend in diet and exercise programs. For example, the October 1995 cover


of Cosmopolitan entices prospective purchasers with the following titles:

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