"An Once of Cure"

The response to Alice Munro’s “An Ounce of Cure"
The title of the story isn't an expression in the same meaning as it is always used ( it means that it is better to try to stop potential problems before they occur, rather than trying to fix them once they are problems). It is a literally expression too. "An ounce of cure" is two glasses of whiskey that the girl stole from the Berrymans. She had a lot of problems at that moment and she was trying to solve them, and all that she actually needed is to get wasted from two glasses of whiskey, be ashamed of the consequences and settle down with her life. The "once of cure" helped the girl to realize what is really important in her life. After the incident she had with alcohol, her eyes seem to be open to a lot of things. At that point the alcohol was her only hope. To my mind teenagers who are reading about this incident are going to open their eyes and they will learn from the girl's mistake that the only way to deal with their problems is to first acknowledge that there is a problem and then openly confronting it.
The story is really smart and shows the problems of a usual teenager life.