Love Medicine

Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Friday, January 29, 2010

I was just wondering, at the end of the chapter The Plunge of The Brave, why did Nector just let the house burn and why did Marie take him back after or is that just Nector's imagination?
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3 comments:

Robert Cawley said...

Nector said that he swore he did nothing to help the fire get bigger. It seems weird that he couldn't put out a burnt piece of paper though. The girl at the end was not Marie, it was their daughter Zelda. She's about 14 and looks just like Marie did.

January 29, 2010 at 11:59 AM
morgan a! said...

I feel like Nector was so emotional about the whole situation that he wasn't fully grasping the house being on fire and everything. I thought it was interesting that the author used Marie like an hallucination, but then it turns out to be his daughter Zelda.

January 31, 2010 at 8:00 PM
oliviakate said...

Yeah, the fire is symbolic for how Nector believes he has no control over his own actions. Throughout the chapter he chooses to to variously different things, but then seems to believe he had nothing to do with the outcome or even his life up until that point. The fire happens because Nector drops the cigarette on the note. He wrote the note. He dropped the cigarette. He claims he did nothing to make it bigger, however he also did nothing to stop it -- sort of like how Lulu takes him to the path where they make love. He puts that on Lulu as if he had nothing to do with cheating on Marie, however, he also did nothing to stop it.

January 31, 2010 at 9:32 PM

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