How I Met My Husband

Upon reading the short story How I Met My Husband  by Alice Munro, I took notice of the importance of minor characters in the story and their role in driving plot, suggesting what is to come, and their furthering of the meaning of the work as a whole. Characters such as Loretta Bird who first comment on Chris Watter's arrival, disapproving of him a stranger, leads Edie to fear Mrs. Bird's disapproval if she ever found out of Edie's relationship with Chris. Edie, having never before lead any curiosity or secretiveness from the Peebles', keeps everything on the down low which ends up making matters worse when she is found out. Also, Mrs. Peebles, a foil character to Edie, is revealed as such in their differing views on farm life, way of living, luxury, and their capabilities. Alice Kelling also plays a prime role in the plot, because had she not stayed with the Peebles', Chris maybe wouldn't have up and left so fast, which could have in turned allowed for some possibility of the continuance and growing of Edie and Chris' relationship. Additionally, Alice's argument with Edie resulted in Mrs. Peeble's sudden distrust in Edie. "Mrs. Peebles was not very friendly to me afterward..it was just that now she had to see me all the time and it got on her nerves,"(Munro,145). Overall, some characters, though not prominent, help the story progress and affect some of the story's eventual outcomes.