Fleur's Tracks
Fleur’s Tracks
In Louise Erdrich’s “Tracks”, the readers discovers by the second chapter that there are two narrators, Nanapush and Pauline Puyat. This method of having two narrators telling their stories alternately could be at first confusing, especially if the readers hasn’t been briefed about it or hasn’t read a synopsis of it. Traditionally, there is one narrator in the story, but Erdrich does an effective and spectacular job in combining …
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…Fleur. At first, Pauline just wants to be close to Fleur, but by the end she wants to be “better” than her. Within her story, the argument that Pauline is the protagonist and that Fleur is her antagonist could be valid, but if you look at the novel in its entirety, meaning the structure and content, the principal character that emerges from it is Fleur Pillager.
Work Cited
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks
New York: Harper & Row, 1988
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