Wild Swans

Wild Swans by Alice Munro

In the story “Wild Swans,” Rose is learning about the destructive potential of relationships at home. The story mainly takes place on a train journey. Rose is traveling to Toronto by herself with ten dollars ¨in a little cloth bag which she sewed to the strap of Rose´s slip´. Before she leaves, Flo, Roseś step-mom, tells Rose to be careful, everyone wants to hurt you. Rose does not believe anything Flo warns her about in the community of Toronto. The reason she is going to Toronto is to start a brand new life. She felt herself transform as soon as she got on the train.
¨West Hanratty flying away from her, her own wearying self discarded as easily as everything else¨.

The train’s travels is also Rose’s personal
People could grow peach trees in their backyards¨. In this quote, the author uses the description of nature to show Rose´s growth as a mature women; from a cold winter like scenery to a sunny spring-like setting. Also, Rose is trying to change in regards to her physical appearance. The young lady tries to buy appliances and cosmetics to better her body image. For example, Rose wants to ¨buy hair-remover to put on her arms and legs¨. As we can see, she feels that a physical remodeling could also in fact affect her personality in a positive
She did not object, not as Flo did with that chocolate milk some years ago. ¨ Flo sniffed it, then hunted up and down the train until she had found the old man in his red jacket, with no teeth and the tray hanging from his neck. She invited him to sample the chocolate milk. She invited other people to smell it. He let her have some ginger ale for nothing¨. She is both victim and accomplice, she believes. Not as Flo would have expected, even insisted, that Rose do or be. ¨She could still believe that she would stop it in a minute. Nothing was going to happen, nothing more. Her legs were never going to open. But they were. They were¨. In this, paragraph the author make evident that Rose is changing in a way that she was a pure girl but now slowly becoming more stained in her sexual compliance.
In conclusion, the story reflects the story Flo told Rose once, about one of Flo’s friend, Mavis, who looked like Frances Farmer; a famous american actress in the late 1930s. One weekend, Mavis dressed like Farmer and went off to a resort to have some fun in her new skin. Rose admires this, as “Wild Swans” comes to an end. She admires the transformation Mavis did, and she’s going to emerge a different person. At the start, Rose was a little duckling but through her experience on the train, and her journey, she transfigures into a wild