Author: Louise Erdrich

First Published: 1990

Type of Plot: Autobiographical

Time of Work: The late twentieth century

Setting: New Hampshire

Principal Characters: The narrator, Anna

Genres: Short fiction, Autobiographical fiction

Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Blindness or blind persons, New England, Pregnancy, Death or dying, Reading, Heroes or heroism, Fire, Entertaining or entertainers, Circuses or carnivals, Lightning

The Story
The narrator's mother, the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, has lost her sight to cataracts. She navigates her home so gracefully, never upsetting anything or losing her balance, that the narrator realizes that the catlike precision of her movements may be the product of her early training. The narrator rarely thinks about her mother's career in the Flying Avalons, however, because her mother preserves no keepsakes from that period of her life

I know you wanted an analysis for the characters, but I'm so sorry that I couldn't find what you were looking for

Anyway, if you want my advice, be careful when you read modern literary works because most of them are fragmented.
Be careful to symbolism as well; each color carries a specific meaning; weather plays a major role in the modern stories too. If it is cold that indicates pessimism and vice versa