Envisioning Feminist Ideology: A Study of Sentimentalism and Imaginative Concern in Alice Munro's My Mother's Dream

• Published in: Researchers' International Research Journal 2022-03, Vol.8 (1), p.14-21
• Main Authors: Das, Chinmaya Chirasundar, Parida, Trailokya Nath
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 20th century; Anxiety; Babies; Emotions; Feminism; Ideology; Memory; Middle class; Munro, Alice; Orphanages; Trauma; War; Women
• ISSN: 2455-4405; 2455-1503
• DOI: 10.21276/tr.2022.8.1.AN2

The intended objective of this paper is to ascertain Alice Munro's inevitable concern of sentimentalism and her artistic perception of feminine fantasy in "My Mother's Dream". The implied vision embracing these ideologies renders the genuine interest of the artist's sensibility in evoking memory and delineation of unbounded imaginary love. The story's obvious conjecture lies in the characteristic way of an infant crying mournfully for her distressed mother. The possibility of the tragic victory of the grief-stricken mother over puzzlement, anxiety, bewilderment and perplexity to earn the status of motherhood, takes a paradigm shift in feminine and social sphere. The fictional narrative pertaining to the social trauma and the anxiety of the protagonist with her enlightened vision serves as a replica of the depressive middle class Canadian women living in postwar decades. A dispassionate and meticulous analysis will re-examine the power of literary artist and her narrative endeavor to codify and construct a mythic pattern of a woman's fanciful measure to transcend fact in passionate dreaming.