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The Cyclic Nature of Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible”

This semester, I finally taught Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible.” As we talked about the story in class, I pointed the class towards the opening paragraph, and as I did, I began to ponder the first few lines and how they work to set up and foreshadow the action in the story. This, of course, is nothing unusual, but the way that Erdrich deploys … Read More The Cyclic Nature of Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible”