The Death of Jim Loney Author:James Welch Jim Loney is a half-breed, of white and Indian parentage. Solitary, brooding, alienated, he is thirty-five years old and lives in a small Montana town. He does not identify with the white community, nor does he cherish his Indian roots. Loney is gentle and is gently going mad, drifting from despair and isolation toward ruin. His dreams confu... more »se his waking hours. Indeed he is fearful of sleep and spends most nights alone, at his kitchen table, drinking cheap wine, trying to think, to discover the origins of his emotional paralysis, his psychological arrest. Loney eventually succumbs to his opaque dreams, to their messages of doom, to the bewildering, recurring symbols in them.« less