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In the short story, The , written by Atwood, Alma has a realization that the balance of power in her relationship with Theo and Mort can not last forever. There are many instances of this loss of this power balance throughout the story. In about the middle of th ....

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.... power in the relationship is not balanced and how really she has no control on the outcome. Munro's short story, Miles City Montana, displays a distinct loss of power when the narrator is confronted with the unendurable thought of not being capable of protecting her child from death. The story opens with the narrator's recollection of a childhood memory of a little boy drowning near her home. At the boy's funeral she also recalls thinking of how no one, not ever his father, could have saved him from his demise, yet it wasn't until later on in life that she realized what this had actually meant. The instant in her life that she came to this realizat ....