How I Met My Husband

     How I Met My Husband by Alice Munro is told in the first-person narrative by a fifteen year old girl, Edie.  Having the story told by Edie as a teenager is better than having it told when she is an adult.  If Edie were an adult telling the story, she would probably have added some of her own insight.  However, having it told from Edie as a teenager limits what the reader knows.  The reader sees a young naive girl fall for an older man who treats her like scum and ends up breaking her heart.  Edie says "I didn't figure out till years later the extent of what I had been saved from" (145).  Obviously Edie is looking back on her teenage years but she tells the story as if she was fifteen again.  This strengthens the story that is told because the reader can see the process of the young girl go through heartbreak and love.  It is amazing to find out the outcome of the experience.  Edie had to experience this heartbreak in order to find her true soulmate.