about a young girl‚ Edie‚ who is hired help for Dr. Peebles and his family. One afternoon while the family is away in town‚ Edie meets Chris Watters‚ a pilot who travels from town to town giving rides in his plane for a fee. Edie falls in love with him‚ but soon learns that he is engaged to another woman‚ Alice Kelling. Alice is crazy and has been following Chris everywhere in hopes of marrying him. One day while Alice‚ Mrs. Peebles and the children were away on a picnic‚ Edie goes to Chris’s campsite
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different features that are available in EDIE and PreManage. These terms and their definitions are available below: Patient Background – Formerly referred to as the Care History Section‚ Patient Background provides the objective information on a patient’s previous care and/or social history. Care Recommendations – Care Considerations and care coordination information that is applicable to the ED setting. This section was previously called the ED Care Guidelines. EDIE Insight or PreManage Insight- A real-time
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emotions. In the story How I Met My Husband‚ Edie shows the growth from someone who is very naïve to someone who is more realistic. In the beginning of this story‚ Edie is a very naïve fifteen-year-old girl. She does not yet realize that the world does not cater to her‚ or tell her how to do everything in life. One way she shows this is by thinking that at school‚ “the work was hard‚ they didn’t make it nice for you or explain…” (Munro‚ page 38). When Edie tries on the dress and Chris catches her
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Britain‚ and the only woman in his life is his mother. The girl‚ who is helping Wil’s mother‚ is called Edie. We do not get to know much about her and her past‚ we only know that she is very sure of whom she is and where she is going in life. Wil and Edie are the two main characters‚ but they are two very different people‚ and have very different visions of life. Wil is staying with his mother‚ while Edie is out‚ exploring life and entering unknown areas of the world. The story has a different kind of
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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Edith Beale: The Color in Grey Gardens With so much information to take in‚ I found it hard to know where to begin on the subject of Little Edie Beale‚ self-imposed prisoner of the mansion known as Grey Gardens. Largely infamous for her bizarre eccentricities being the reclusive cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis‚ dare I use that term as her own mother once said‚ “’Eccentric’ is a lack of money.” I came to know her as an artist. More importantly‚ I discovered that she was not delusional or
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a living for him and his family. During that time Dares mother‚ Edie was taking care of Dare and her younger brother Blain. 9 years after their disappointing marriage‚ Ivan cheated on Edie‚ and they were separated. Thanks to Edie’s manipulative ways‚ “by default…Ivan took responsibility of his son blain; he was also restrained from interfering with her [Edie] and dare.”(Nathan 38) The separation of Dares family was extreme. Edie was forced to travel more and work long hours to provide for her
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to show how Edie kept secrets and how she was blinded by love. I plan to show that this story contained secrecy almost to the ending. Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband” uses the themes of secrecy and love just about throughout the entire story. In this story Edie is a fifteen year old girl who is employed by the Pebble’s family. She initially succeeds at the job mainly because she withholds information from her employer’s. Munro shows how the theme of secrecy is also shown when Edie hides the box
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was for Edie not to get caught wearing Mrs. Peebles clothing. This is how Edie and Chris Watters meet in the first place; he seeing her in Mrs. Peebles clothes and telling her how beautiful she looked and she going to him later so that he wouldn’t mention to anyone that she was wearing her employer’s clothing. By the author introducing Mrs. Peebles to us she also introduced her wardrobe. Mrs. Peebles is somewhat a mysterious character‚ in a sense that we do not know what her outlook on Edie is. In
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of Alice Munro’s story “How I met my Husband” is Social expectations mold individual circumstances. Edie‚ a fifteen year old housemaid in the lower class of society has qualities and talents that demonstrate a skill set of aristocracy. "Have a house without pie‚ be ashamed until you die" is a quoted statement that Edie ’s mother used to say to her that Mrs. Peebles was not very familiar with. Edie was astonished when Mrs. Peebles admitted that she could not make pie crust and said it was "the most
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