Love Medicine - A study of Marie

Marie Lazzarre-Kashpaw Marie Lazzarre-Kashpaw is an extremely central character in Loise Erdrich’s novel, Love Medicine. The collection of short stories chronicles Marie’s life from her battles with an abusive nun at age fourteen, to conflicts with her children and grandchildren at the age of sixty-four. Throughout the novel she takes on many roles and can be associated to a great many themes, images, objects and details. In the text of this paper, I …

…in “Resurrection.” In the larger narrative of Love Medicine, the Marie Lazzarre-Kashpaw character symbolizes a strong, female figure. She is a mother, a caretaker, and an extremely charitable person. Her character brings with it a power and dignity to the novel that can’t be found in many of the other characters. And although Marie has flaws, she fights through them, and she constantly learns from the mistakes those flaws lead her into. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**