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 I think I'd like to explore the conflicting view on predators, and whether to embrace/accept them or fear and hunt them in Prodigal Summer. This seems to connect very well to the critique we read in class from the Native American perspective about how Western stories must always have a villain and a hero-- whereas Native stories strike more of a balancing act, and also how, in Hyde's view, the trickster is not a negative character or a villain, but a necessary carnivore. I think this idea will work, but I need to scour both Hyde and Gunn's analyses again so I can better construct an opinion from one of their points of view.