Holes in the Fabric of Life
Holes in the Fabric of Life

Summary/Abstract: In this article I attempt to produce an inductive reading of Alice Munro’s story “Deep-Holes” published in 2008. Departing from a more conventional type of criticism primarily based on impression, I mostly approach the ideology of the narrative by trying to write into it the effects that this ideology produced on my own mindset. The study sample in the story is a middle-class family, not unlike its stereotype in the Western world, whose eminent son has a life-changing revelation as a result of a life-threatening accident from which he emerges slightly incapacitated. I follow the effects of his conversion on other family members as well as on myself as a reader, revealing in the process a possible definition of humanity as well as a fresh approach to writing short stories.

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