Del mundo real a la multiforme realidad: una aproximación interpretativa a La vida de las mujeres de Alice Munro

Abstract

The Lives of Women is a compilation of short stories written by Alice Munro, which interweave the story of Del Jordan, his childhood, youth and adulthood, and that of his extravagant mother Addie Morrison -- In this work, the line between story and novel becomes so thin that it becomes a pendulum that oscillates between the borders of both genres and equally balances between two worlds, the real and the reality -- Hence, this article intends to investigate from the female identity of the protagonists and the contrast of their actions with the other women of the Jubilee town, if that the real world is made up of conceptions imposed by the culture, by the "should be »And, on the other hand, if the reality can refer to an individual search of being" without duty "