Little Big Man | Characters
Although celebrated for its depiction of Indian life, Little Big Man has a number of significant themes which transcend mere social criticism. A main concern of the novel is Jack Crabb's discovery of the "center of the world," an epiphany of numinous religious experience which occurs twice: once after his sexual triumph with his Indian wife and her sister, and again at the end of the tale when he witnesses the ritual of Old Lodge Skins' death song. A complement to this theme is Berger's contrast of the white world's conception of reality as a linear sequence with the Indian's...
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