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Pauline's Exocentric Identity in Louise Erdrich's "Tracks" During the novel "Tracks" (1988) Louise Erdrich (Anishinaabe) devolves her characters with personality and physical distinctions enabling them to come alive. As Erdrich's most culturally diverse character, Pauline is developed into a distinct and idle shape that is molded and expressed in a unique way. Pauline's exocentric character guides her through the novel with unmatched identity and alienation from her struggling culture. With this development Pauline makes it well …

…Pauline can only be described as the most irate and misunderstood character of this book, solely on the evidence of her sanity, or lack there of. With as many distractions as there are in Pauline's life, there will be many more to come. Her insanity level will rise and her affection for the white community will boldly end up turning on her, as well as her infatuation with what condemned her in the beginning; Religion.