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Society's View Of Dance By Alice Munro

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Society’s beliefs of what is wrong and right affects the narrator of this story until she meets someone who thinks differently than everyone else. During the dance, the narrator describes all the girls that are being chosen: fat girls, ugly girls, girls with pimples and girls who were too poor to buy themselves a dress. In total distress, she narrates, “Why take them and not me? Why everybody else and not me? I have a red velvet dress, I did my hair in curlers, I used deodorant and put on cologne.” (135 Munro). While all the other girls are getting chosen to dance, the main character feels like there is something wrong with her because she wasn’t chosen. Her urge to fit in with the society’s picture of a dance makes her think she is less
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