Fleur | Themes
The overriding theme of "Fleur" celebrates the power of narrative, of the story, and of the belief in "the story." It is a theme that marks Erdrich's stories of "ozhibi'iganan, the reservation depicted in ... all of [her] novels . . . an imagined place consisting of landscapes and features similar to many Ojibwe reservations" (The Last Report, 357). Nanapush, the central male character in The Last Report of the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) (he does not appear in the short story "Fleur") expresses it this way: "There is a story to it the way there is a story to...
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