Describe The Homeless Narrator

The narrator discloses both his race and his homeless status in the first paragraph, saying "I'm not going to tell you my particular reasons for being homeless, because it's my secret story, and Indians have to work hard to keep secrets from hungry white folks" (Alexie 438). The introduction of narrator, as Jackson Jackson later in the story, tells us that "homeless Indians are everywhere in Seattle" and that "we Indians are great storytellers and liars and mythmakers" (439). Narrator is aware of his place in society, of the repression of society and all the flaws in his own character that binds him where he is. All Through the story, narrator gets money from many different sources. Jackson spends all the money he finds or earns on food and alcohol for himself and other homeless Indians.At the point of beginning, Jackson is portrayed as a person with no identity. “One day you have a home and the next you don’t” (Alexie 8), the quoted lines explainsthat how he lives his life on the streets, wandering everywhere without knowing through each day going about the same endless routine because he does not have his own home. He seems to