The use of dual narratives in Louise Erdrich’s novel Tracks creates a feeling that the reader is being given two sides of the same story. It broadens the events mentioned from personal experience to communal experience, and in some cases re-enforces events described so that the reader knows what happened from two points of view. At the same time, however, it creates a sense of almost paranoia for the reader. Because of the personalities of each narrator, one tends to make us question the other.
In the third chapter, once both narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, have been established, Nanapush states flat out that Pauline lies.
In the third chapter, once both narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, have been established, Nanapush states flat out that Pauline lies.