The Indian Uprising | Themes
Male-Female Relationships
There are no successful relationships between men and women in Barthelme’s short story, even between the narrator and his girlfriend Sylvia. The ground between men and women in the story re- flects the ongoing battle between the Comanches and the narrator’s troops.
Twice the narrator indicates that he is ‘‘getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love,’’ indicating a certain amount of pain surrounding his feelings for Sylvia. In another scene, Block quickly assures the narrator that Sylvia is not in love with...
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