Such Victor’s tendency can be well illustrated in regards to the fact that, throughout the novel, he never skips an opportunity to refer to other Natives in a particularly sarcastic and even derogatory manner.įor example, Victor used to derive an emotional pleasure out of deliberately altering Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s last name, “’Ya-hey, Builds-the-Shithouse,’ Victor said. The close reading of Reservation Blues suggests that it is namely Victor’s tendency to succumb to irrational anger, which defines the essence of his life-posture. In my paper, I will aim to substantiate the validity of this suggestion, in regards to the character of Victor Joseph, as a person whose sense of identity is being equally affected by his visually and psychologically defined ‘nativeness’, on the one hand, and his simultaneous desire to integrate into the White society, on the other. In its turn, this explains why Alexie’s novel features a number of characters whose positioning in life appears being reflective of different specifics of their exposure to the experiences of a racial discrimination.
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