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