Main Character
Main Character - meaning Summary
Child's Witness to Injustice
A child watches a Western in a theater and witnesses a drunk Native American rise, curse the film’s romanticized violence, and fling wine at the screen. His gestures and sobs transform the onscreen conquest into bleeding, messy reality, staining cowboys and prairie. The narrator later looks for the "main character," implying a shift in perspective: the true protagonist may be the oppressed figure whose pain exposes the myth of the West.
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