How I Met My Husband

Alice Munro's  How I Met My Husband had multiple central themes. The biggest theme that I picked up from this short story was that love is blind. The narrator of this story is Edie. She is also the protagonist in this short story for she drives the action. Only being a young girl of the age of fifteen, Edie is till naive and vulnerable to the whole love scene. You can tell from the reading that she is curious and interested in falling in love and in experiencing the interactions that go along with being in a relationship. Edie's naivety was showed through her lack of full comprehension of what "intimate" meant in one of the final scenes. She also showed that she was a young innocent child still by waiting day after day for Chris to send her that letter. "It never crossed my mind for a long time that a letter might not come. I believed in it coming just like I believed the sun would rise in the morning" (Munro, 145). Edie had tossed out all possibilites that what she and Chris had wasn't actually love. She centered her whole excitement and joy solely on receiving a letter from a man who was never coming back for her.

I do not believe that Chris was a bad guy. Do I agree with all his decisions? No. But I do not believe that Chris was a character who liked to prey on little fifteen year girls. Some might argue that knew she was a young, naive girl. However, I don't think Chris had any idea how old she was. I think he just believed she was shy but was infatuated with him. I think he took advantage of the fact that she liked him and used it to make her fall even harder for him. I believe Chris could not stay in one place for too long. He was one who liked to travel alot and move around the country. Leaving his fiance was inevitable and it had nothing to do with him kissing Edie. I do not think he should have made out with her or promised her letters and a way to find him. However, if he had not promised letters, Edie would not have waited every day, day after day at the mailbox. In turn, she would not have met her husband.