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Confusion about real life – reading Alice Monroe's The Real Life

This is the second story about an open secret, telling the story of three women whose lives are different. Millisecenter is one of three heroines, and almost as a narrator. At the end of the novel, Monroe writes that she lived to the age of an old lady, and she was still alive. But Millisente's husband Potter had been dead for decades. She had kept the house where Dolly had lived, hadn't sold it or demolished it, and hadn't done so, which was a little confusing. Dolly is an orphan girl wandering in the wilderness. This novel especially reflects the author's calm and cold writing style, telling the ordinary life of ordinary women and allowing readers to peek into the hearts of the three women.

The story begins with Dolly falling in love with a man, and tells a delicate and thorough account of Dolly's life in the old house (originally Dolly Baker's) on the land of the EliCenter family. Her brother Albert has died. In the poor and powerless life of the brothers and sisters, loneliness was never a threat. In addition, Dolly has a dog, called Delilah, who loves to chase cars and run, and the dog was later hit by the car and killed. The story recalls some fragments of Albert's life. My brother was a very kind man, and once a crazy woman attacked him with an axe (when delivering), Albert continued to deliver her, and could not bear to report her, for fear of sending her to a mental hospital. The woman later gave him cupcakes.

The story shifts from Dolly to another heroine, Muril Snow, who is a music teacher. Millisant plans to let her daughter Betty Joan learn piano and meets Muriel. Marrying someone was a public topic of conversation among music teachers, and the first thing she did when she even came back from visiting relatives was to report on the condition of the men there. She got into a lot of emotional trouble, with her student's uncle, father, grandfather ("They could only wave goodbye to her from the waiting car.") "These always end with misunderstandings, reproach and hostility. The Board of Education warned Miss Snow.

Allison was at home, and Dolly and Muriel went to help. It was among the visitors that a man named Mr. Spears, who was particularly interested in Dolly and Dolly's hunting life, and had a great conversation. At the end of the meeting he left, probably through letters to continue the exchange. When Dolly comes to Millisant's house with a piece of white silk, the story returns to the beginning of the novel. In terms of writing technique, it is said that the dog Delila died in a car accident and echoed the front. The author writes that when the children ran to stare at it when they were preparing the wedding dress, presenting a picture of rural life. In the middle of the party, I wrote about the episode where the calves stuck in the wire fence, and wrote about deliberately breaking a pigeon egg and putting a beetle to toss in it, so that the racing pigeons mistakenly thought that the young birds were going to break the shell and fly straight home, winning a lot of money, and it was particularly interesting to write these seemingly unrelated stories. The wedding was prepared in an orderly manner in the warmth and busyness of Millisant and Muriel. The wedding was approaching, and On the day of the appointment to have dinner together, Dolly did not appear at Millisent's house.

Halfway through millimeter's meal, she decided to go to Dolly's house to find her. Along the way, she thought of all kinds of possibilities in her head, thinking that she might have an accident, such as wiping a gun and shooting, unexpected luck, and making people believe in the possibility of disaster at the same time. But Dolly was at home. What does Dori mean when she says she can't leave here?

Dolly is not ready to get married, and staying in this place is the real life. Millisecenter saw this and persuaded Dolly.

She was reluctant to do so, including her brother's grave. Dolly may be planning to give up her life, and she is in a dead corner. Millisente burst into tears. She was the most mysterious and craziest person she had ever overcome, one she was about to send away. She promised to put flowers on her brother's grave every year and wouldn't tell anyone.

The wedding finally began, and the car went to pick up Dolly, but she was going to walk to church. The atmosphere on that street was so sweet, especially the narration of her car honking its horn at the bride on her way to church, was shocking, and as a reader, I almost shed tears. Alice Monroe's story is not limited to complex causes, she writes about results. Fast forward a few decades, and years have passed, and Dolly has written from Australia about married life. Husband Wilkie fell ill and died. She herself died in the fifties, on her way to see the volcano in New Zealand. Dolly's marriage also had an impact on Muriel, who got married, had two children, changed her habits dramatically, and her hair turned gray.