Resisting Acquiescence: Institutionalization and Late-Life Friendship in Alice Munro’s “Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd”
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aging, textual analysis, Alice MunroAbstract
This essay analyzes Alice Munro’s “Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd” from the collection The Moons of Jupiter (1982), focusing on the ways in which the story dramatizes the clash between the pervasive vitality which characterizes the two protagonists and their friendship, and the normalizing acquiescence prescribed by the institutional care facility where they reside.
Opporsi alla remissività: istituzionalizzazione e amicizia nella tarda età in “Mrs. Cross e Mrs. Kidd” di Alice Munro
Questo saggio analizza il racconto “Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd” di Alice Munro, tratto dalla raccolta The Moons of Jupiter (1982), focalizzandosi sulle modalità con cui esso rappresenta lo scontro tra l’estrema vitalità che caratterizza l’amicizia tra le due protagoniste e la remissività loro imposta dall’istituto in cui risiedono.
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