Develop a brief close reading of The Bear Came Over the Mountain. Remember, close reading is all about closely examining the text, so be specific and particular. time to close read every line or sentence, so you will have to be selective and focus on what you think is most important. You can refer sparingly to the rest of the text if you feel you need to, but you should mostly focus on the given passage. What I am evaluating here is your ability to pay close attention to a particular piece of text. The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro: The shame he felt then was the shame of being duped, or not having noticed the change that was going on. And not one woman had made him aware of it. There had been the change in the past when so many women so suddenly became available–or it seemed that way to him–and now this new change, when they were saying that what had happened was not what they had had in mind at all. They had collaborated because they were helpless and bewildered, and they have been injured by the whole thing, rather than delighted. Even when they had taken the initiative they had done so only because the cards were stacked against them.
