'The Moons of Jupiter' was originally published in The New Yorker on 22 May, 1978, with a slightly different version being republished as the title story of Munro's fifth collection that came out in 1982. The Moons Of Jupiter by Alice Munro, 1978 The magic trick: Combining changes and thoughts about the protagonist’s relationship to both her father and her daughters into a seamless blend This is a ridiculously beautiful story about being a. Tim McIntyre, in an analysis of 2009, points out that Munro's realism with its 'capacity for characterization, compassion, and presence' is made to function in opposition to the author's 'sophisticated understanding of language's inability to represent perfectly either the world or the totality of being.' Munro's characters are being punished even though they are successful, viz the example of the writer Janet in 'The Moons of Jupiter', says Atwood. In her congratulatory statement on Alice Munro's Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 in The Guardian, Margaret Atwood said with reference to this story that, first, success must first be striven for, and then it seems one has to apologize for it. The story ends with her reflecting on the moments after the planetarium show earlier that day, in which she came to some acceptance of her older daughter's and father's respective decisions and then returned to the hospital. That evening at the hospital, she quizzes her father on the moons of Jupiter and the mythical origins of the name of the moon Ganymede, knowing that these might be the last words she will ever hear him utter.

Janet, who had started coming to terms with his prognosis, is unsettled because surgery means the risk of death on the table in an effort to regain her composure, she goes to a planetarium and stays for a presentation, which prompts many realizations, among them that what was once fact can be supplanted by new information, new facts. Her father, who had initially decided against surgery (which meant a life expectancy of maybe three more months), has changed his mind and is scheduled for surgery the next day. She stays overnight in the apartment of her younger daughter, Judith, who is taking a holiday with her boyfriend, and thinks about (and misses) her older daughter, Nichola, who prefers not to be in touch. Janet, a divorced, middle-aged writer who has become somewhat successful, is visiting her dying father in a Toronto hospital, where she had driven him the day before.

The story is 17 pages in length and made up of 7 sections with the shortest section being the final one. It deals with how facts may change over time. ' The Moons of Jupiter' (1978 / 1982) is a short story by Alice Munro, the Canadian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

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