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This study guide will help you analyze the short story “Gravel” by Alice Munro. We will show you examples of elements in the text that will be relevant for your analysis. In these notes, we will focus (…)

The short story “Gravel” by Alice Munro is opened by an unnamed narrator who tells a story from her childhood. The story begins with the description of the place where the narrator lives: a trailer in (…)

This section highlights the main elements of our analysis of the story “Gravel” by Alice Munro. The story’s structure features narrative techniques such as foreshadowing, flashbacks, and fragmentation (…)

The title of the short story “Gravel” by Alice Munro has both a literal and a symbolic meaning. In the literal sense, the title names the most important element of the setting where the action takes p (…)

The main character of Alice Munro’s short story “Gravel” is an unnamed narrator. She is a developing character, since she develops from a child into an adult and her way of thinking and acting change (…)

The narrator’s outer characterisation in “Gravel” by Alice Munro is very brief. The narrator is most likely a woman, and at the moment of the narration, she is probably an adult. We can deduce this be (…)

The narrator’s mother is a secondary character in Alice Munro’s short story “Gravel.” The mother is described as “good-looking and young enough to be mistaken for an actress”. She organized fund-raisi (…)

Caro is the narrator’s older sister, and she is another secondary character Alice Munro’s short story “Gravel”. Caro is a 9-year-old girl. She is a pupil and goes to the school in town. She also used (…)

Alice Munro’s short story “Gravel” happens in two different timelines: the narrator speaks in the present as an adult, retelling a story that happened in the past. The short story was published in 201 (…)

The short story “Gravel” by Alice Munro is narrated in the past tense by an unnamed first-person narrator. The dialogue, however, is in the present tense, and the narrator also inputs some present-ten (…)