It has been said of Anton Chekhov, the well known Russian short-story writer, that in all of his "work, there is under no circumstances exactly a spot. Rather we come across into someone's hear – in just a few pages, the curtain concealing these lives has been driven back, disclosing them in all of the their confusion and craze and rancor. " Alice Munro, also, falls into this category. Most of her short-stories, such as "Royal Beatings" focus more about character thought rather than plot.That is not to express that absolutely nothing happens in Munro's short-stories. Instead, multiple scenes occur in "Royal Beatings. " The narrator, Went up, tells us of her existence as a child developing up in Hanratty, Ontario; of her stepmother, Flo's, tales and operate the store the family owned, of her father's habit of isolating himself in his household furniture shed, of being beaten after which indulged...
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