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Pages 275-284

• The following version of this story was used to create this Lesson Plan: Munro, Alice. “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Marriage. Vintage Books, 2001. 275-323. Print.

• The story is told by an omniscient narrator who has total knowledge of Grant’s point of view.

• Fiona lived with her parents in the same town where she and Grant attended college.

• Grant had thought of Fiona’s parents’ house as both “luxurious and disorderly” (275).

• Fiona had access to her family's money, as evidenced by her veritable pile of cashmere sweaters.

• Fiona’s mother wore her white hair loosely around her shoulders, a fact that had shocked Grant’s mother.

• Fiona’s mother’s far-left political views meant that there was an endless stream of visitors to the family home, some of whom spoke with foreign accents.

• Fiona herself had seen politics as a joke, but...

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