Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home And School Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards The Dance
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Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home and School Environment
Determined Her Attitude Towards the Dance
The short story "Red Dress" by Alice Munro is about a young girl's first
high school dance. Her home and school environment determined her attitude
towards the dance.
This girl's home life ....
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.... towards the dance understandable. When
Mason Williams comes to dance with her, she describes dancing with a
`nobody' like her was "as offensive to him as having to memorize
Shakespeare."
The narrator's school life was just as bad if not worse. She would never
be sure of herself when she is called up to the blackboard. Her "hands
became slippery with sweat when they were required to work the blackboard
compass." She would also envision the worst case scenario, that she had
her period prior ....
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