If Nector could have only combined the women, he would have the perfect woman for himself. Nector may have been one of the first to adore Lulu, but he certainly wasn’t one of the last. Nector was daydreaming about Lulu when Marie escaped the convent and ran into him; this event changed the direction of all three of their lives. After the encounter with Marie, Nector thought, “ because I am saving for the French-style wedding band I intend to put on the finger of Lulu Nanapush, I do not let Marie Lazarre go down the hill” (63)
Although it appears that this hurt Lulu she called on her inner strength and “shrugged Nector off, threw him out of my life” (73). Lulu’s intuition also caused her to realize that “It took Marie to grow him up” (73). Alternatively, Marie hung onto him with her outer strength “I had plans…dragged him back each time he drank, and tied him to the bed with strong ropes “ and “I had decided I was going to make him into something big on this reservation” (88). Marie so longed for the appearance of strength that she thought that the other woman would