Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Character Analysis Of Angie In The Gift Of Cochise

The traditional western hero has so closely synonymized itself with the image of the rugged, horse-riding, cowboy hat wearing, gun shooting white man, that a fearful wife and mother appears entirely antithetical to the very notion of the frontier hero. Yet, Louie L’amour adeptly crafts his western hero out of the very same aforementioned traits through his character Angie in The Gift of Cochise. Angie’s logical, pragmatic, and calculated actions, because of her role as a wife and mother, allow her to successfully advance westward and settle in Apache territory as the rightful western hero of the story. While various male characters attempt dutifully to satisfy Turner’s hypothesis of advancement westward, their reckless approach to the†¦show more content†¦His descriptions as â€Å"tough† and â€Å"brawling† emphasize the resilience associated with the traditional western hero. However, his lack of defined purpose in continuing his pursuit w estward causes him to fall short of truly encapsulating the western hero. Angie Lowe, in contrast, diverges from her father’s credulous justification for moving west, by choosing to move for the particular reason of helping her husband, settling when she sees a territory satisfactory for her family. Her fulfillment of Turner’s hypothesis centers around her duty as a wife to help Ed leave Santa Fe for a more suitable home rather than the intangible and nebulous allure of the glorified west. L’amour deliberately mentions that Angie, not Ed, chooses the property on West Dog Canyon, implying that the move into the frontier is solely because â€Å"Santa Fe [is] not good for Ed† (L’amour 58). More importantly, unlike her father, who continues moving even after finding a wife and having a kid, Angie stops once she finds the house â€Å"with grass, water, and shelter from the wind, [that] Angie with an Irish eye for the land saw would grow crops† (L ’amour 58). As evidenced by Angie’s choice to move west, not because of glory or adventure, but for the practical advancement of her family, Angie more successfully fills the role of the western hero. While her feminine take on the Turner hypothesis, through the

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