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Her journey in life reveals all the decisions made to find her place in the human society. The question is, did all the things in this life made her happy? Her story makes you wonder if the decisions that you, or she in this case, or anyone else would ever take are the right ones or if things would have been different if you had changed something.
Alice Munro found the essence of the story in Sophia’s thoughts: “Many persons who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. Actually, however, the science requires a great fantasy.”
The story has an open ending. Sophia died because of illness, leaving behind the question if she died “too happy” or not. The conclusion of this novel is that you do not need to achieve major things in life to find happiness.
Even if the ten stories in her book have different topics, they have something in common: the main characters appear to be simple women, but which bear rich life experience and suffering. On the other hand, it seems that they are trying hard to keep going in their search for (too much) happiness.
Alice Munro’s Happiness
-- by Georgiana Deaconu
The book contains ten amazing short stories with surprising subjects. My favorite story is the last one, “Too Much Happiness”, inspired by the real life of Sophia Kovalevsky, the first mathematician woman who became famous despite all the unfavorable events which marked her existence. She was also a writer and faced an unprecedented destiny in her time.
Her journey in life reveals all the decisions made to find her place in the human society. The question is, did all the things in this life made her happy? Her story makes you wonder if the decisions that you, or she in this case, or anyone else would ever take are the right ones or if things would have been different if you had changed something.
Alice Munro found the essence of the story in Sophia’s thoughts: “Many persons who have not studied mathematics confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. Actually, however, the science requires a great fantasy.”
My favorite quote is: “Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind but when a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
The story has an open ending. Sophia died because of illness, leaving behind the question if she died “too happy” or not. The conclusion of this novel is that you do not need to achieve major things in life to find happiness.
Even if the ten stories in her book have different topics, they have something in common: the main characters appear to be simple women, but which bear rich life experience and suffering. On the other hand, it seems that they are trying hard to keep going in their search for (too much) happiness.
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That's my favorite quotation, too, Georgiana.
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