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With her story ‘The Office’, Alice Munro begins an investigation into the fiction-making process that has continued throughout her later career. The autodiegetic narrator’s attempts to resolve the clash between dedication to her art and the demands of motherhood parallel the evolution of Munro’s own aesthetic. ‘The Office’ rehearses various styles of storytelling, including conventional literary discourse, oral storytelling and autobiography, displaying an ambivalence towards the conventional techniques of fiction and the division between life and art. The story articulates a self-reflexive poetics of distraction which may be related to fragmentation, digression and ellipsis in the short story genre as practised by Munro across her oeuvre.

“Bizarre but Somehow Never Quite Satisfactory”: Storytelling in “The Office”