Essay Archive - Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home and School
Environment Determined Her Attitude Towards the Dance
Short Story - Red Dress: How A Girl's Home and School Environment
Determined Her Attitude Towards the Dance
The short story "Red Dress" by Alice Munro is about a young girl's first
high school dance. Her home and school environment determined her attitude
This girl's home life was bad. She was constantly put down mentally by her
mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie, to the point that the narrator
envied Lonnie on account that her mother died and she lived alone with her
father. "`I doubt if she appreciates it.' She enraged me, talki....
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