After Reading Alice Munro‘s Runaway’ Carla was once a normal girl living with her parents. When Clark appeared, he was so charming and attractive and popular that Carla was hooked to him. The first escape could be perceived as her repulsion of normal boring family live with her parents, which is normal among most adolescents because they are generally rebellious in this period, and more importantly, her impulsive sensual desire for romantic love with Clark. She left a note to her parents: “I have always felt the need of a more authentic kind of live.” This escape seems a success, because she married Clark and they ran a horse stable in a Canadian village, led a poor but happy live for the early years of marriage. But the truth is that she escaped from a trap and then stepped into another trap of live. She thought her live with Clark was an “authentic” kind of live but she herself had no idea what is that kind of live. As time went by, the cruelty of reality emerge. After the romantic, more is helpless and all outings come to be seen as a waste of time and money. Their poor living condition seemed unchanged while Clark became a disturbed and hostile husband who tortured Carla mentally. He spent most of his time on computer after his busy day without a word to Carla. “He was mad at her all the time. He acts as if he hates her. There is nothing she could do right and there was nothing she could say. Living with him was driving her crazy.” He even asked her to make money through threatening a widow with Carla’s humiliating experience of being harassed by her dead husband. It’s apparent that when the initial passion faded out, their marriage had nothing left but boredom and mutual abhorrence. She was perplexed and had tried to repair their relationship several times but it seemed she couldn’t manage it by her own. In such circumstance, she long for an escape to a new live, a fresh live.