A New Reading of the Covert Progression in Alice Munro’s “Something I have been to Tell You”

Abstract

Professor Dan Shen calls the hidden dynamic that complicates the audience’s response in various ways covert progression which has its own development orbit independent from plot development, creating a thought-provoking reading effect. This paper aims to penetrate into the cover progression of Alice Munro’s short story “Something I’ve been meaning to tell you” and illustrate the the covert progression in the story by analyzing its narrative code and stylistic choices.