Fleur

FLEUR Fleur, in which the central character is Fleur Pillager, Erdrich captures the reader?s attention immediately and forces her character upon the reader with the first line of the story. ?The first time she drowned in the cold and glassy water of lake Turcot, Fleur Pillager was only a girl.? Right away the reader knows there is something unusual about this character. Erdrich also ties into her storytelling, tribal mythology. No one ?courted? Fleur …

…after math of the storm they found the three men frozen inside the meat locker. These stereotypical characters remained true to their mold in remaining stock throughout this short story. Even Fleur?s name is symbolic. Fleur is a French word that means flower. The meaning of her last name, Pillage, is one who destroys, plunders, and obliterates. In the short story Fleur, the main character matches the attributes of both of these word meanings.