I found myself torn with the narrator, pondering the choices of a girl in a world of teenage boys. Munro provokes reflections on gender roles and parental pressure and how these can influence development. Girls are just as capable as boys, you just need to give them the chance. A Trip to the Coast A Trip to the Coast is set in the nearby ghost town of Black Horse. The central Ontario setting described by Munro made me feel a sense of patriotic nostalgia. Munro paints a clearer picture of the landscape than a Group of Seven artist. The vivid description of the landscape around Back Horse reminded me of my cottage. “Whoever is passing through, heading to the Muskoka lakes and the northern scrub, can notice that in these parts the generous landscape thins and flattens, elbows of worn rock appear in the increasingly narrow fields and in the deep and harmonious woods of elms and maples give way to a denser and less hospitable forest of birches and poplars, spruces and pines - where in the heat of the afternoon the spiky trees at the end of the road they become blue, transparent, retreating into the distance like a company of ghosts." (Munro