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self-deception

Munro shows that people tend to believe what they wish to believe, regardless of the facts.

vital falsehood.

He embodies romance: a man that loves ’em and leaves ’em, not cruelly but in a way that can delude. If Watters represents promises of romance, he also provides Edie the opportunity to grow and understand that she wants more out of life than waiting for a dream to come true and more, too, than his own restlessness will ever provide

Munro, Alice, Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell you, New York, 1974. print

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