Faces In The Moon Analysis
Similar to Lucie from Faces in the Moon, Betty Louise Bell is a professor and fiction writer of Cherokee ancestry. Finding out these details about Bell made me wonder if the character Lucie was based on Bell herself. In the interview posted on Canvas, Bell states that the story is a reflection of her experience and that Lucie is in fact based on herself. The fact that Faces in the Moon is almost autobiographical does change my interpretation of the novel. It makes the story become more personal, as I wonder which parts were fictional and which events Bell actually experienced. The title of the novel comes from Bell’s grandmother’s last words to her daughters. Just as Hellen told Gracie and Rosella that she would be watching them from the moon,