It WAS you coming out of that house two nights ago!

 Halloooo! Whatchyou doing up here? This is Annie Cook calling!

In the previous entry we were talking about sex and sexual relationships in the rez. The theme in which we will be focusing today is unfaithfulness.

We already got a glimpse of it in the last entry, while talking about Philomena and her white lover, who were caught by the lover's wife.

Now you might be thinking, what is this person doing? What does unfaithfulness have to do with all these native literature? Well, it turns out that unfaithfulness is one of those native stereotypes, actually when they are first talking about Marie-Adele and her fourteen children they comment on the fact that they're all of the same father.

This unfaithfulness is also used to bring some humor to the story and relax all the drama going around. As Pelajia (extremely witty Pelajia) says, “Nothing to do but drink and screw each other's wives and husbands” (6), and that is what they do, or at the very least gossip about it.

Annie rushes to Pelajia's house to tell her, among other things, about Gazelle Nataways, that mean woman who leaves her babys “starving to death” in her empty kitchen just to be with Big Joey. And also to find out about Emily Dictionary, with whom Big Joey is cheating on poor Gazelle.

But that is not all! Actually, Eugene before marrying Marie-Adele was engaged to her sister Annie, something her two sisters, Pelajia and Philomena make fun of,

“Philomena: (…) Why, I do believe that cloud of dust over there is Annie Cook racing down the hill, Pelajia.

(…)

She is walking mighty fast. Must be exited about something.

Pelajia: Never seen Annie Cook walk slow since the day she finally lost Eugene to Marie-Adele at the church 19 years ago. And even then she was walking a little too fast for a girl who was supposed to be broken-heart … Stopping just in time and laughing … heart- broken.” (9)

Please, say hi to Annie Cook

I'm aware that this has been a short entry compared to the others, but every once in a while it is good to rest a little. Anyway, I want to know your opinion, what do you think about unfaithfulness as a topic? Do you think it bring humor to the story or do you think it helps to preserve a stereotype?

Let me know in the comments!