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Alice Munro Walker Brother Cowboy
The narrator in Alice Munro's short story, "Walker Brother Cowboy," is portrayed as a young prepubescent girl. Despite the narrator's age, she is very attentive. She notices things about her father -- things that most children her age would not notice. After they left Nora's place, her father seemed different. Physically she could see that it was still him but from a different lens, she could definitely see a change. This change can be compared to an "enchanted landscape." Like her father, the country-side landscape in the story represents a familiar force to her, and something that is enchanted is spellbound and different from its former state. In the short story, "Walker Brother Cowboy," the narrator notices that her father is unhappy with
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