Analyse af Lorien Crows novelle 'Cowboys and Indians'

This text is a short story written by Lorien Crow in 2008. The story takes place in the present time in New Mexico, and is about the narrator, a young girl/woman, and her rebellious cousin David. The story begins at the funeral of the narrator’s grandmother. The mourners are gathered at the grandmother’s house, and the narrator is helping her aunts serve coffee and pastry. David shows up, and rescues the narrator from suffocating at the funeral feast. They head of on his Ducati and drive around getting drinks at a bar, watching the sunset and eating chili, while they talk about how there are Cowboys and Indians everywhere. They also talk about how David should have visited his grandmother more often. At the end David drops the narrator of at their grandmother’s house and drives away; he can’t deal with coming inside. The narrator switches back into the polite and helpful young woman, and wonders why David isn’t able to make the same switch.

Characterization of the narrator:

The narrator, whose name or exact age we are not told, is a young woman from Connecticut.

We make acquaintance with the narrator as she attends her grandmother’s funeral/funeral feast, and also as she takes a break from the funeral feast to spend time with her rebellious cousin David.