• Pratima Chaturvedi

The main objective of the present paper is to explore childhood experiences, identity, and sensibility with special reference to Munro’s Dance of Happy Shades (1968). Her stories are known for being intensive and concise character studies, personal and psychological portrayals of women and men, often centered on the explosive struggle between individualism and collectivism. Munro devotes the form of her stories to their substance, citing similar storytelling structures and motifs in various works, such as the subject of reunion and the conflict that arises from opposing lives. She creates her characters’ identification by combining pictures from the past and present in multi-layered tales of personal recollection. The paper also examines several short tales, with an emphasis on the three-story cycle. The paper also examines the short story writing of Munro and her common style which illuminates human intricacy effortlessly. She keeps a remarkable position among other contemporary writers of fiction. She gave prime attention to her native place; Southwestern Ontario in her short stories. The paper will also shed light on the local people, their desires, and their lifestyles. She started writing at adolescent age and published her first story as a student. Her writing hold on regional and perplexing female characters which are the features of her writings. Southern Ontario Gothic is a literary genre and most of her writings are related to it. It will use the qualitative research methodology based on the observation, evaluation, and analysis of Munro’s select work.

Identity, childhood experience, Sensibility, Injustice, Women, Environment

"Childhood Experience, Identity, and Sensibility: A Feminist Reading of Alice Munro’s Dance of Happy Shades", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.a281-a290, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109042.pdf

"Childhood Experience, Identity, and Sensibility: A Feminist Reading of Alice Munro’s Dance of Happy Shades", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. ppa281-a290, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109042.pdf