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ALICE MUNROS THE ALBANIAN VIRGIN IN OPEN SECRETS EXEMPLIES HER symptomatic APPROACH     To try to trace Alice rice beers narrative techniques to every particular development in the short story The Albanian complete(a) would be difficult. This could be because it is simply written from c arful observations as are many of her other short stories. In her short stories, it is as though she tries to transform a common, ordinary world into several(prenominal)thing that is unsettling and mysterious as was seen in Vandals. nigh of her stories found in slack Secrets, are set or focused on Munros native Canada, Huron County, and particularly in the small legendal Ontario town of Carstairs, although the setting in The Albanian double-dyed(a) is in British Columbia. The story, The Albanian Virgin, found in Open Secrets, exemplifies Munros characteristic approach to short story writing as it explores central characters lives that are revealed from a combination of sta rting time person narrative and third person narrative. By using both(prenominal) narratives, Munro adds realism, around autobiographical information slightly her own emotional state in the short stories, as the stories are excessively based on fiction as can it be found in antecedent written short stories.     Since many of her stories are based on the country in which she was born, the characters and narrators are often thought of as being about her life and how she grew up and making her stories appear from a feminist approach. This could also indicate why the central characters in the short stories in Open Secrets, are all women a young woman kidnapped by Albanian tribesmen in the 1920s in The Albanian Virgin, and a young regenerate Christian whose unresolved feelings of love and anger cause her to vandalize a house in Vandals. Her theme has often been the dilemmas of the adolescent girl advent to terms with family and a small town. Her more recent w ork has communicate the problems of middle age, of women alone, and of the elderly. The characteristic of her style is the search for some revelatory motility by which an event is illuminated and given personal significance. (The Canadian cyclopedia Plus 1995)Munros later work can likely be seen as that of her later or more recent memories, as she ages so does the characters of her short stories.     The short story, An Albanian Virgin, begins... ...sp  The use of narratives, both firstly person and third person brings about the unique style of Alice Munro. non many writers could write in such a substance that makes the referee feel like they are the narrator in a way. Most of her stories have often been compared to be more near autobiography than to fiction by some critics. It is true that much of her stories in some way or another do relate to her life, being that of her childhood or that of her later years. The point of the matter is that altho ugh the reader can distinguish some similarities in the stories, they are for the most part fictitious with an add of some realism to them.REFERENCESBlodgett, E.D. "Alice Munro." The Canadian Encyclopedia Plus. 1995.Bloom, Amy. "From Strength to Strength." The Boston Book Review.      January/February 1995, galvanic Newstand.MacKendrick, Louis, K. Alice Munros Narrative Acts. Downsview, ECW      Press, 1983.Munro, Alice. Open Secrets. Toronto McClelland & Steward Inc., 1994.Turbide, Diane. "The all-time Storyteller." Macleans. October 17,      1994, 46-49.