By doing this, Alexie forces the reader to confront Victor’s erratic, selfish behavior. Narrating the story in the third person places a barrier between Victor and the reader, and makes it more difficult to identify with him as a character. Not coincidentally, it is also the first story that portrays Victor as more of an anti-hero than a sympathetic figure. Unlike many of the stories that feature Victor, “Crazy Horse Dreams” is narrated in the third person. He tells her she is nothing, and leaves without having sex. Victor believes that One-Braid “wishe he was Crazy Horse” (42) instead of accepting him as he is. Before they can do so, Victor begins to put One-Braid off with his neuroses – he worries about “forced movement” (40) and the fact that One-Braid has no scars on her body. Eventually Victor gives up and talks to her, and they swap stories about life on their respective reservations before going to her Winnebago to have sex. A short woman he calls One-Braid keeps following him and trying to flirt with him, even though he insists he is not interested.
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