Walker Brothers Cowboy

    Sometimes children can hold grudges against the actions that a parent may choose to do. When families separate, the child for the time being cannot understand why these things are happening. they may just allow for one major even to overshadow all others. From then on out, an opinion of someone can change and nothing else from that point one mattered. In Alice Munro's Walker Brothers Cowboy, a young girl looks back on the memories that she had with her father and realizes that she did not give him enough credit for the things he did. She allowed for one significant event to change how she felt about him. In the story, Munro shows that memories one shares with another can mend any argument. 

    In Walker Brothers Cowboy, the father i said to have once raised foxes and sold their fur to others, but recently times have gotten tough and no one has been buying furs.Now he is a door to door salesmen. Her mother can be seen as more practical than her father doing day to day chores for the family and the house. During the story, the father encounters and old girlfriend by the name of Nora. The interaction that the two share makes a great impact on the father, making him increasingly happier. In one selection, the narrator says how the father never would drink whiskey, but she soon realizes that he not only drinks whiskey but "he drinks whiskey and talks of people whose names" the narrator never heard of before. After this conversation with Nora, the narrator notes that after this, the father is much happier. She gets a sense of the father's past and realizes that he wants to become the man that he wants was. This gives the narrator a new found respect for her father.