I've read Munro's own comments about Wenlock Edge.

[Briana]

Like others, I was left lost but intrigued by this story, and I went immediately to Google to search for other comments. Obviously, there is something in this story that both intrigues and bothers us. I'm new to Alice Munro, having only read 3 short stories, so I don't know what to expect. Here are her own comments as part of a longer interview:

"AM: The student has all kinds of smarts to keep her afloat in the world. But Nina is totally a victim because she has nothing. And Nina finds an implausible sort of romance that she is nevertheless willing to invest in and our heroine doesn’t even allow her to keep that. So in a way, it’s a bleak story. But I don’t think it’s bleak in terms of being not what people would do. “Dimensions,” the first story in the book is fairly unusual—it’s an extreme story—and I don’t think “Wenlock Edge” is extreme."