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Duncan Heyward and Alice Munro’s courtship

The Last of the Mohicans

Duncan Heyward and Alice Munro’s courtship is marked by genuine tenderness but complicated by a proposal that lays bare the racial assumptions of its time. Their affection emerges amid military danger and family reunion, while Heyward’s conversation with Colonel Munro reveals that his attachment to Alice exists alongside a prejudice he struggles to disavow.

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