How I Met My husband / Alice Munro

“I’m wondering, if you know what being intimate means. Now tell me. What you think it meant,” (Munro 144)? Edie is young and naive.  She does not actually know what she is doing and the full impact that it will have.  The narration of the story is by Edie multiple years into the future.  This narration gives a slightly detached feel to the story.  Multiple times through out the story the narrator mentions how naive she was at the time.  Chris is a flighty Pilate which has a stoker for a fiancé. He must have a somewhat boring life. He is continually running from his fiancé and having to make small talk to all the different passengers he takes on flights.  Mrs. Bird is very much like a bird.  She invites herself over a lot and trying to figure out as much as she can about what is going on in the house. It sounds like from the amount of time she spends visiting the neighbors that she would be neglecting her children.