whiney bitch perhaps?

The narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” provides a very pessimistic depiction of the fate of Indians in contemporary white American Society. Throughout the story, the narrator gives example of competitions between whites and Indians. The first people to compete in the narrative are the narrator and the 7-11 cashier. The narrator even describes this incident as a “demonstration of power.” The narrator explains that he eventually fails because the store clerk is only “tickled” by the competition. I view the Creamsicle as sort of a peace offering between the store clerk and the narrator. Just as the narrator compares the clerk’s salesmanship to the United States treaties with Native American tribes, the Creamsicle is sort of a meaningless symbol of friendship. I find it interesting that the narrator accepts this peace offering, but instead of eating it, he lets it melt all over his hand. In this way the narrator reveals that all he can do now that he has lost this competition is to watch the symbol of peace melt away.
This same idea of failure is highlighted in the competition between the narrator and the white BIA basketball player. However, the narrator doesn’t give much detail as to how the one-on-one game ended, he does reveal the feelings of the entire Spokane Indian tribe as the white kid one. He mentions that, “We knew he was better that day and every other day.” In this sentence, the narrator reveals that the competition was never just between the narrator and the BIA kid, but also the whole tribe and the white basketball player, or all Indians and the white American community. Alexie’s narrator also pushes this idea of ultimate failure on the part of the Indian community by stressing the fact that the white kid was “better that day and every other day.” This leaves no hope for the Native American community, which is extremely depressing and pessimistic. The narrator argues in this short story that the Indian community and the white community are fated to fight forever, and the Indians are sure to lose.