Medicine

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In contrast to the psychiatrist who did not question his decisions or actions, the narrator in “An Ounce of Cure” Munro 255-262 does indeed question herself all the way through the story. It is clear to the reader, almost from the beginning of the story, that there is a plenty of anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the narrator’s decision to become intoxicated while in a position of responsibility.



The reader knows immediately that the narrator is going to make a decision about alcohol: My ugly parents didn’t drink 255. And if there ever was any drinking This drink was always consumed outside the house255 Also, the reader gains insight that she is about do something she shouldn’t while she is babysitting, “I got up and found the Berrymans’ ‘Dance Macabre’ and put it on the CD player and turned out the living-room lights257

We know at this point in the story that the narrator has just made her recognitiondecision: I gave up my soul for dead and walked into the chicken and decided to get drunk257

The reader can cense that it is an unauthentic decision for the narrator because she considers her soul in that moment, and then immediately displays her confusion and denial over her repulsive decision;“No, it was not like that;I had not decided to get drunk; I had decided to have a drink 257

As the story continues, we do not know exactly where she got the nerve for her thought process around alcohol, for example I through of hard liquor as something to be taken in extremes…for extravagant results257 However, we can see that it is a somewhat childish and immature thought that led the narrator to her decision, specifically, the Little Mermaid drinking the witches’ crystal potion 257

The narrator’s first expression of guilt for taking drugs from someone who trusted her is illustrated when she attempts to falter the evidence[Then filled each of the bottles with orange j...