Wing’s Chips
Wing’s Chips Childhood is an important part of a child’s growth. What they learn now will be with them for their entire lifespan. The events become memorable moments. Vacations, birthdays, parties, everything contributes to the person’s character. Such is the short story “Wing’s Chips” by Alice Munro. Displaying the life of a small girl living in a French-Canadian town during her summer with her father. The plot of the story is slow paced giving details of the girl’s feeling and mindset. The story starts out with the author trying to remember the town she used to live in during the summer when she was 7 or 8 years old. It was a town with a distinctive harshness in the air, probably because it was yet to be settled and cultivated. The time period of the story is after the First World War, and the place is a rural town in Québec. Her father is a laid back and simple person who is usually is not at home because of his art. It had eventually struck the author that her father was not a normal parent when Pauline says “Drôle de père” (Gallant 205) meaning “an odd father”. Probably because he was did not “work” like the other men. Even though he is British, he chose to live on the French side of the river, which in her eyes is a grave social error. He was fine to live his own summer, and let his daughter live on her own, displaying his carefree attitude. And is this attitude because of which the author feels weighed down, because he constantly used to paint people who never used to pay him, especially the little Wings. They were the richest people in the area. And it was one day that the little Wings and an older Wing had come to the house to meet the father. He had just gone out on a walk, and she ran to get him, and when they came back he found Pauline and the older Wing arguing. They had come to him to ask him to make a new sign for their store, which he did. When the sign was finished and hung up, everyone on both sides of the river examined it and admired the