Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories - Alice Munro (1946) - Comparaison with Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth (1990)

Abstract

The first text we study here is a story from Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories, which was written by Alice Munro in 1946. From the beginning of the text, the protagonist explains that her mom spends all of her time working on sewing her daughter's dress for the dance. She spends months on it, wanting it to be perfect. The young girl says that she was fine wearing the clothes her mom made for her, until she realized that it didn't correspond to the world's sense of fashion.