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This thesis is to cope with Alice Munros masterpiece Lives of Girls and Women,a set of stories presented through the central consciousness of a female protagonist Del Jordan, whose process of growing from a sensitive girlinto a writer forms the main thread of the work. Significant moments in Del Jordans development from childhood to the point at which she decides to pursue her own life are depicted.Composed of seven self-contained stories, which are chronologically arranged, Lives of Girls and Women showsDels growing awareness of death,her relationship with hermother and aunts, her experiences withreligion, art andsexual awakening, and her vocation as a writer. This dissertation analyzes the central theme of the narrators growing from three major aspects. From the very beginning of the book "The Flats Road", Del begins her struggle between worlds of binary positions, such as the Flats Road and the town Jubilee, the ordinary and the mysterious represented by death, and the contradictory spheres epitomized by her different family members. As asensitivegirl, Del feels perplexed in the conflicts and isaware of the struggles she is going to experience.In the next phase, Del matures from all the contradictions and tries to search for her own way of writing. Her ambivalence toward Uncle Craig and her mother fosters her own opinions on writing and on knowledge. Then, after Del enters into her adolescence,she sets out on her journey of searching for belief and goes through her very first involvement with a man, who later wants to imprison her life by offering her a marriage. Being depressed andheart broken, Del resolutely refuses the traditional way of life laid out for a female and makes up her mind topursue her own future as a writer at the end of the book. As a sensitive girl, Del Jordan is open to everything around her. She absorbs from her families and her friends, and at the same time tries to break up the confinement. Every significant moment in her growing up experience adds to her taking the road of an artist in the end.