I would apply the reader response to analyze the critical approach of the short story “Matchimantio” Why generally because this story can be interpreted more than one way according to the text. In hindsight, with short story such as the Cathedral anything can be viewed from one’s opinion can evidently be seen to be true, based on the perception of the reader standpoint and viewpoint.
In the short story Matchimantio, Louise Erdrich explores the interpretation of how life may have not always begin when we were first born. Louise begs to differ that it may have started after death. In short story of Matchimanito shed light on the first sentence, “We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.” (Erdrich 507) This is pretty much elaborating how the story is going backwards, when the passage remarks started with death now its ending with life. This passage is basically interpreting how the were dying group of people who were fatally sick who were basically struggling to cope with the …show more content…
Later on during the story; Fleur becomes betrayed by her in-laws when they forced to take the money that they were suppose to use to pay for fleur land as well as her in-laws land. Instead, they use it entirely to pay for their own debt. Fleur loses all hope and reassurance and she eventually sends her daughter Lulu away to a government school. As suddenly trees start crashing down her house before she takes off the reservation. Eventually Nanapush is successful in getting Lulu out of the government school. He tells her mothers story so that she can understand her past, and hopefully not get into any bad
In the short story Matchimantio, Louise Erdrich explores the interpretation of how life may have not always begin when we were first born. Louise begs to differ that it may have started after death. In short story of Matchimanito shed light on the first sentence, “We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.” (Erdrich 507) This is pretty much elaborating how the story is going backwards, when the passage remarks started with death now its ending with life. This passage is basically interpreting how the were dying group of people who were fatally sick who were basically struggling to cope with the …show more content…
Later on during the story; Fleur becomes betrayed by her in-laws when they forced to take the money that they were suppose to use to pay for fleur land as well as her in-laws land. Instead, they use it entirely to pay for their own debt. Fleur loses all hope and reassurance and she eventually sends her daughter Lulu away to a government school. As suddenly trees start crashing down her house before she takes off the reservation. Eventually Nanapush is successful in getting Lulu out of the government school. He tells her mothers story so that she can understand her past, and hopefully not get into any bad