Therefore, a full circle of storytelling is created: the author tells stories and stories are imposed upon the characters and the characters tell stories with their imagination or their lies. Open Secret is a short story that tells the stories of people’s lives that, in turn, makeup stories themselves. By exploring this concept, she is able to emphasize the importance of language, as well as the role it plays in society (Frangipane, 135). It also offers Munro the opportunity to study the notion of an ‘open secret’ itself. The “fiction within fiction” storyline is used by the author to emphasize the importance of fiction itself, and it is this attitude, towards the importance of fiction and storytelling, that distinguishes Munro’s work from other authors.
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