Winter in the Blood (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Welch
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Family
- Time of Work: Early 1970’s
- Setting: Northern Montana
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Family literature
- Subjects: 1970’s, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Racism, Native Americans or American Indians, Grandparents or grandchildren
- Locales: Montana
Characters Discussed
The narrator, an American Indian of Blackfeet and Gros Ventre ancestry. He remains nameless throughout the novel. As the story begins, he has returned to his family’s home on the reservation after years of drifting from place to place. The familiar sights there stir painful memories of his dead father and brother, the only people he ever loved. Their deaths triggered his wandering. He spends much of the novel searching for Agnes, a young Cree woman who ran away from him soon after he took her home to his mother and grandmother, who mistakenly believed her...
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