Victor Reservation Blues

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figure. Victor consistently dreams about his mother, his real father, and his stepfather:
Victor dreamed of his father, a short, stocky white man, red-headed and so pale that veins flowed through his skin like rivers on a map. Victor’s mother and stepfather had met in a cowboy bar in Spokane when Victor was nine years old, a few weeks after his real father had moved to Phoenix, Arizona….In Victor’s dream, he could smell the dead body, his real father’s. His real father had died of a heart attack during a heat wave in Phoenix and lay on a couch for a week before a neighbor discovered him. Victor hadn’t seen his real father for years before his death. Victor could smell that dead body smell. That smell never fully dissipated, had always remained on the edges of Victor’s senses. (Alexie 24-5)
In this dream, which occurred earlier in the novel, Victor is still haunted by his father’s death. He feels a void that his father left, and he obviously misses him, but this void fails to be ...

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