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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.