THE FATALITY OF LOVE IN THE STORY 'TRICKS' BY ALICE MUNRO

Critical readings of Munro’s work have been prolific, throughout her writing life, especially in the form of academic articles. Already in the mid 1970s, articles on separate stories began to appear in academic journals. Since the beginning of Munro’s career critics have continued to be fascinated and puzzled by her particular twist of realism, but no one has exposed the realism as connected to her exploration of possibility as arising out of fatality, no critic has explored the tension between possibility and fatality that we see at the heart of Munro’s writing.