Saint Marie (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Plot: Wit and humor
- Time of Work: 1934
- Setting: North Dakota
- Principal Characters: Marie Lazarre, Sister Leopolda
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Prejudices or antipathies, Mental illness, Native Americans or American Indians, Violence, Oppression, Comedy, Convents or nunneries, Nuns
- Locales: North Dakota
The Story
Marie Lazarre is reliving the day that she tried to join the nuns in the Convent of the Sacred Heart. Walking to the door, she considers her motives: to be respected, even revered, by the nuns, who look down on her because she is from the reservation (even though she does not “have that much Indian blood”), and to get away from “the bush” and into town. She also remembers the day Sister Leopolda, hearing the “Dark One” in the coat closet, hurled a long hooked pole through the closet door, then made the terrified Marie stand in the dark closet because the...
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