Cowboys And Indians
Cowboys and Indians
Summary
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 chilli, 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 do the same, and please the family.
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, and also as she takes a break from the funeral feast to spend time with her rebellious cousin David. At the funeral feast she explains how she is old enough to be expected to replace plastic utensils, and thank people for attending, but she still feels like a teenager who needs to escape. Underneath all this responsible acting, she has a wild and young side to her. She doesn’t describe her relationship with her grandmother as a close one, but she saw her as a role model. She tells us that she and David are the black sheep in the family, and that her grandmother failingly tried to make up for the fact, that their grandfather despised them. Still, she has spent more time with her grandmother than David has, and thinks, that there is a different level of respect because she is a woman. She admires her grandmother’s life and her
Summary
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 chilli, 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 do the same, and please the family.
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, and also as she takes a break from the funeral feast to spend time with her rebellious cousin David. At the funeral feast she explains how she is old enough to be expected to replace plastic utensils, and thank people for attending, but she still feels like a teenager who needs to escape. Underneath all this responsible acting, she has a wild and young side to her. She doesn’t describe her relationship with her grandmother as a close one, but she saw her as a role model. She tells us that she and David are the black sheep in the family, and that her grandmother failingly tried to make up for the fact, that their grandfather despised them. Still, she has spent more time with her grandmother than David has, and thinks, that there is a different level of respect because she is a woman. She admires her grandmother’s life and her