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Judgment, Progression, and Ethics in Portrait Narratives: The Case of Alice Munro's "Prue"

ethics are intertwined phenomena, that narrative is an excellent site for explorations of and inquiries into ethics. Narrative, in this view, is a way of thinking about ethics and ethical action. In this essay, I want to extend some of my own work on these issues, work that I have elsewhere called "rhetorical literary ethics" (Phelan 2004) by looking at the relation between rhetorical form and ethics in a hybrid genre that I call portrait narrative, with Alice Munro's "Prue" as my test case. As I describe the hybrid form, I shall explain what I mean by both rhetorical form and rhetorical ethics, and I shall argue for the central place of narrative progressions and narrative judgments in our understanding of form, ethics, and their interrelation. Furthermore, I shall use my account of the portrait narrative and of the interrelation of rhetorical form and rhetorical ethics in order to elucidate Munro's