with stuff, just load 'em up. I call them 'Indian trapdoors.' You know, Indians fall in, white people just walk right over them" (Purdy 7). Alexie shows a much lighter side during this conversation, then what is portrayed in his works. Observing how Alexie's writings' are different from the traditional American-Indian, something similar to the 'trapdoors' Alexie spoke of, Dan Georgakas says: "Words count for him, whether for the sheer joy of wordplay, or as a means of revealing a character" (Georgakas 1).
             Commenting on how his writing has both good and bad consequences in his life, Alexie says "I spend a lot of time alone, workin
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