Tracks

by

Louise Erdrich

Sophie Morrissey Lazarre Character Analysis

Sophie Morrissey is Bernadette’s eldest daughter. She helps out at the Pillager cabin, and Pauline uses love medicine to cause Eli to seduce the young woman. She is punished for her behavior and sent to live with an aunt, but she returns to the Pillager yard, seemingly possessed to stay forever. Eventually she marries a Lazarre and also lives on the family farm as it slowly fails.

Sophie Morrissey Lazarre Quotes in Tracks

The Tracks quotes below are all either spoken by Sophie Morrissey Lazarre or refer to Sophie Morrissey Lazarre. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Tradition, Assimilation, and Religion Theme Icon
).
Chapter 4 Quotes

The Virgin stared down. Her brow was clear, Her cheeks bone-pale, Her lips urgently forming a secret syllable, all of a sudden trembled. That’s when I saw the first tear. There were more. Although Her expression never changed, She wept a hail of rain from Her wide brown eyes. Her tears froze to hard drops, stuck invisibly in the corners of Her mouth, formed a transparent glaze along her column throat, rolled down the stiff folds of Her gown and struck the poised snake.

Related Characters: Pauline Puyat (speaker), Sophie Morrissey Lazarre
Page Number: 94
Explanation and Analysis:
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Sophie Morrissey Lazarre Quotes in Tracks

The Tracks quotes below are all either spoken by Sophie Morrissey Lazarre or refer to Sophie Morrissey Lazarre. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Tradition, Assimilation, and Religion Theme Icon
).
Chapter 4 Quotes

The Virgin stared down. Her brow was clear, Her cheeks bone-pale, Her lips urgently forming a secret syllable, all of a sudden trembled. That’s when I saw the first tear. There were more. Although Her expression never changed, She wept a hail of rain from Her wide brown eyes. Her tears froze to hard drops, stuck invisibly in the corners of Her mouth, formed a transparent glaze along her column throat, rolled down the stiff folds of Her gown and struck the poised snake.

Related Characters: Pauline Puyat (speaker), Sophie Morrissey Lazarre
Page Number: 94
Explanation and Analysis: