When read the book Mountain Wolf Woman, I mainly concentrated on the chapters when Mountain Wolf Woman was at her adult age. This was the time when she turned mature, had her marriage and started to make decisions for her own life. During such a period, Mountain Wolf Woman demonstrated her qualities like self-determination and courage by the instances of how she dealt her unsuccessful first marriage and made tough decisions to overcame the obstacles on the way pursuing her happiness. Not only in chapter IV, Mountain Wolf Woman had actually established herself as a woman with very strong self-determination throughout the book. But this self-determination was fully presented in the chapter IV when she had her first marriage. Her first marriage was an arranged one, and the instigator was her brother Hagaga who got drunk and gave his sister, Mountain Wolf Woman, away. As could be expected form most of the arranged marriage, Mountain Wolf Woman’s marriage was not a very happy one. Her first husband was very easily aroused to jealousy of other men and used to accuse Mountain Wolf Woman of having affairs with other men even her male relatives. Accusations like such could greatly hurt a woman’s self-esteem even when she was insulted by her closest one. It was by that time Mountain Wolf Woman set up her mind to leave her husband. Moreover, as Mountain Wolf Woman was married to her husband family, she found that it was very difficult to get along well with her mother-in-law. When she was asked to join lodge for the medicine dance, her mother-in-law promised her a highly prized otterskin medicine bag but did not give it to her, for which she felt disgusted. This marriage was doomed to be unsuccessful from the beginning when first of all it was arranged by Mountain Wolf Woman’s brother rather than resulted from a free love relationship. Considering her husband failed to cherish and protect his wife, it was quite understandable that Mountain Wolf Woman would want to divorce with her husband. Actually such determination was deeply rooted in her mind when she was about to married her first husband. At that time when her mother was combing her hair and tried to comfort her,