The revelation that Munro’s second husband sexually abused her daughter – abuse that the late author knew about – does not damage her legacy, at least as a writer
The public response to Andrea Robin Skinner’s account of sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin – the late second husband of Alice Munro – has been fierce. Among many of the late author’s readers, a sense of disgust has descended; some have suggested she should be stripped of awards, including her Nobel.
The differences are revealing. Mr. Vanier’s actions stung so bitterly because of their moral force. Although he never put himself forward as a moral exemplar, that result was inevitable given the worthy cause he had committed his life to. As such, the depth of his failures came at a great cost; happily, the important work of L‘Arche survived him.the tangled complexity of human experience
The modern preoccupation to read everything through a moral lens is death to any worthy literary appreciation of the human predicament. Literature shows, after all, it doesn’t tell.Recall that Ms. Skinner said that she informed her mother of the abuse roughly a decade after it ended. Ms. Skinner’s biological father, we are told, was made aware from the earliest time and, unlike Ms. Munro, could have intervened. After learning of the abuse, Ms. Munro briefly left Mr.
Moreover, the exculpatory account marshalled by Ms. Munro is heartless and selfish. Ms. Skinner writes that her mother suggested that “our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children and make up for the failings of men. She was adamant that whatever had happened was between me and my stepfather.
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