How I Met My Husband

     How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro details the somewhat sad love story of a fifteen-year-old hired girl. The story finishes with a surprise, somewhat sad, ending.

"He always tells the children of how I went after him by sitting by the mailbox every day, and naturally I laugh and let him, because I like for people to think what pleases them and makes them happy" (Munro, 146). 

     This ending is sad because it shows how Edie did not marry a man she wanted to, she simply settled for someone else. She spends her whole life in disappointment. However, one question following the story asks how Edie has matured later in life. It seems as though she has grown up and moved on. She has realized she was just a little girl who fell got a man too quickly. Edie, in her older life, seems disappointed yet at peace with her current life. There is still the little girl inside her that yearns for that first love. However, she has loved and lost and realizes it is all for the best.