Response to "An Ounce of Cure"

When first reading this story, I got a bit confused, but then i started focusing on what the title meant, and how it related to the story. This women has this unstoppable addiction to this one man and is madly in love with him but she tries to stop but all of her actions seem to remind her of the man. So when relating this story to the title, it took a bit of time. But seeing her serious addiction and a cure to find it, it all started to make sense. Her problem is the man and she wants to stop loving him and as i continued to read the story, she tried to cure it but realized it wasn't possible. So it could be that it's relating to what she didn't do and that is make an effort to cure it before it actually becomes a major problem in which it did. Later she starts to drink while on babysitting duty and starts to take shots. When she get's under the influence, this gives her a bigger problem to worry about in which it overcomes her addiction of the man she loves. So in the end, she overcomes her addiction by drinking shots (which are taken in ounces) and suddenly relates to the title "an ounce of cure" where one shot cures her problem. Alice Munro used good wording to describe this story as it was interesting how the plot unfolded. It was interesting to find out how the story went along as in the beginning, it was very hard to understand so she made this story interesting in the beginning to grasp the readers attention and then bring in a more severe plot to the story before the climax to make it exciting. It was a well written story and made me think very hard.