The Leap Louise Erdrich Analysis
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In the story “The Leap” by Louise Erdrich, a daughter is dealing with failure and looks at the challenges her mother has had to overcome. The daughters mother, Anna Avalon, “is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act” and “She walks slowly through her house here in New Hampshire,” (1). The information shows that the daughter reflects on her mother's complex life. The daughter reflects, “I returned, in fact, from my failed life where the land is flat,” (3). This statement shows that the story’s conflict is not centralized in solving the mother's current complications, but that the daughter is struggling with life. The mother told her daughter “that I’d be amazed at how many things a person can do within the act of falling,” (2). Her mother