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"Comfort," by Alice Munro, is a short story based on life, death and dying, suicide and religion. With the depth of all four topics, controversial issues arise and compromising situations hold the main character, Nina, at a difficult crossroad. That crossroad is the wants and needs that Nina yearns for. "Comfort" illustrates a ride through what Nina experiences after the passing of her husband and her dire need to get what she wants or at least to obtain comfort. From the beginning of the story the reader is bombarded by the emphasis of different views of comfort. However, Munro develops a sense of what Nina believes her comfort should be and then Nina finds her comfort in an unsuspecting place.
In the beginning of the story, Nina is driving home from playing tennis. When she arrives to the house she discovers her husband, Lewis, has committed suicide. Surprisingly, Nina is not shocked, nor is she in disbelief. Lewis had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and slowly was......

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