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In this story Blood Wedding, it gives us the opportunity to compare marriages nowadays to traditional marriages back then. Modern day marriages are supposed to be fulfilled with the desire of love and to live life with your one and only and that “meant to be” someone who you completely adore and can see yourself growing old with.
This tale hands us the outlook on how past marriages are supposed to be arranged. Unlike modern day marriages, the daughter does not pick whom she will marry. These parents choose this for them and standards are raised to love the one who is the wealthiest and will provide the best for the daughter. The mother is crazy about girls being prim and proper, and how they should act as wives. To be in complete submission and to have the utmost devotion to your husband is qualified as a good wife. But things go wrong, the mother becomes murderous and the daughter runs off with another man.
I think a lot of marriages ended up this way long ago. To require a passion that cannot be granted is a lot to ask for in the hand of marriage. The mother and father focused too much on what they could achieve as a whole, instead of what the daughter wants, which would usually end in disaster. But maybe they are so concerned with who they choose for a husband because they want to best for the future of there family down the line?

Throughout these stories I only found the “trickster” sensibility at work in the first one, Amusements. In this tale, three Indian friends are at a carnival when there one friend Dirty Joe passes out on the ground. Debating on what to do with him they debate on what to do with him. Just leaving him there for the cops to arrest him was one of the things they could have done but instead they took him on an enjoyable rollercoaster ride. This is where I suspected the cruel trickery.
As they practically fell on the ground of laughter, Dirty Joe was circling around head moving side to side back and forth like an “old blanket” they gave away.
The joke they pulled on Dirty Joe is actually hilarious and reminds me of something my friends and I would think about doing to each other under the same condition. Though we would only think about it and not actually go through with it like they did so in the story. For someone to actually go through with this idea is priceless, but only a trickster could have done so.
Even though Dirty Joe might have deserved the humiliating prank of gaining consciousness on a roller coaster, it probably wasn’t the best thing to do at the time.

In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, there are many facts and examples to believe that McMurphy and the Big Nurse Ratched have conflicts within the ward. Nurse Ratched is believed to be the controlled center of the universe, inside the ward. The combine as Chief Bromden calls her, is what gives her the oppressive force upon society and authority throughout the story. The nurse is, in fact, in complete control of the ward, and she uses psychological intimidation, and physical abuse, which are every bit as powerful and dangerous to the ward members.
I think the book takes on the interpreting the view of how the world emphasizes cruel social pressure to do the accepted thing. Those who do not accept society’s rules and conventions and considered damaged and labeled mentally ill. So, the mental hospital is a symbol for the repression Kesey sees in society, before the coming out of the 1960s counterculture. A hospital, normally a place where the ill go to be cured, becomes a dangerous place.