Aging and Family Caregiving in “The Bear Came over the Mountain” by Alice Munro: A Narrative Gerontology Study
Efad Yaseen Dhahi, Intisar Rashid Khaleel
This study explores the importance of Narrative Gerontology theory and focuses on Alzheimer's and Dementia narratives which reflect the struggles of patients in the short story, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” (2014), Canadian author, Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate of literature, audaciously touches upon themes that are generally repressed and are intolerable as they refer to aging, family, caregiving and Alzheimer’s disease. Monro adopts a lucid approach to the precarious condition of the human being who can only maintain a sense of existing with the aid of the memory of lived experience. However, Munro manages to surprise us further by casting a look, with great finesse and humor, at the tragic and omnipotent dimension of jouissance connected with the desire for love and survival lurking in the depths of the unconscious of each of us.
Keywords: Alzheimer, Caregiving, Family
