The Progress of Love by Alice MunroPlot: A woman is called to work by her father who tells her that her mother has died. The father never got used to living alone and went to a retirement home. The mother is described as very religious, Anglican, who had been saved at the age of 14. The father was also religious and had waited for his mother since the first time he met her. They didn't have sex until marriage and the father was slightly disappointed that the mother had no money. Description of the house follows, very high ceilings, looks like an old mansion, with chimney stains, has been let go. Skip in time to the narrator's ex-husband who mocks the narrator's fantasizing about stains. The next paragraph is the father in a retirement home, always referring to things: 'The Lord never had intentions', shows how the elderly disdain new things, the next generation seems to be more and more sacrilegious. He shows a streak of meanness when he "spits" a reference to constant prayer, the narrator claims not to know who he is talking to, but it appears to be the very pious mother. The following paragraph jumps back in time to when the narrator was a child, she constantly questions her mother about her white hair and what color it was, the mother says she was happy when it was no longer brown like her father's, she shows great disgust towards him father, the narrator's grandfather.