The Progress of Love by Alice MunroPlot: A woman receives a call from her father at work, telling her that her mother has died. My father never got used to living alone and went to a nursing home. The mother is described as a very religious, Anglican, who had been saved at the age of 14. The father was also religious and had been waiting for the mother since he first met her. They did not have sex until marriage and the father was slightly disappointed that the mother had no money. The description of the house follows, very high ceilings, old house it seems, with chimney stains, it was abandoned. Jumps forward in time to the narrator's ex-husband mocking the narrator fantasizing about stains. The next paragraph is from the father in a nursing home, always referring to things: “The lord never willed. ", shows the extent to which older people disdain new things, the next generation appears more and more sacrilegious. Showing a touch of nastiness when he "spits out" a reference to constant prayer, the narrator states that he does not know who he is talking to, but appears to be the very pious mother. The next paragraph goes back in time to when the narrator was a child, she constantly asks her mother about her white hair and what color it was, the mother says she was happy when they didn't were darker like his father, shows great disgust towards him. father, the narrator's grandfather.