Grand Avenue Masks

Part I of Essay
Many Characters in the novel Grand Avenue, by Greg Sarris, are wearing masks. Masks that conceal themselves and their culture in an attempt to fit into the world that has enveloped their history and stifled their heritage. The key to these masks is the eyes. The eyes of t ....

Part II of Essay
.... I had seen behind her bright eyes the past few weeks had come out now; she was that person. She had told stories to save herself - now she was telling them to excuse herself. Hatred. Jealousy. Anger. Evil. All I had seen in my mother’s and my aunt’s eyes at different times were here in Faye’s.” (p. 23-24) After doing her best to fight the poison that curses her family, she finally succumbs. Jasmine describes her cousin Ruby’s eyes as being “a million miles away” (p.7). But when ....