AcknowledgementsThanks for giving a chance to express my gratitude. This well-done thesis is guided by my attentive and patient supervisor Wang Fan who has helped me work out an outline of the paper, gave me valuable suggestions on how to collect materials and organize my paper, and inspired me to think my paper deeply. As for that, I’m very grateful. Secondly, I want to thank Alice Munro’s distinguished short story Runaway. Thanks are also extended to CNKI providing many helpful masters’ theses and academic journals. In addition, I wish to thank the library that supplied me with reference materials of great value. Without the support and assistance above, this thesis would not have been possible. Thanks again.AbstractAlice Munro, one of the most famous Canadian writers today, is well-known for short stories. Alice Munro won the Nobel Literature Prize by Runaway in 2013. In recent years, studying Runaway has been becoming a vogue in scholars at home and abroad, mostly from the perspectives of literature criticism, imagism and free-feminism.This paper will analyze the second sex of Carla in Runaway from the perspective of existentialist feminism. Through explaining reasons behind Carla’s runaways--a failure and a success, this paper will explore “the Other” and “internality” in Carla’s female consciousness.It is divided into five parts. The first part will give briefly introductions about Alice Munro and Runaway. The second part will state existentialism, existentialist feminism and the second sex. The third part will analyze relationships between Carla and other roles in this short story from the perspective of the development of Carla’s female consciousness. The fourth part will analyze the ...
