Short Story This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix Arizona

In the short story “This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona” written by Sherman Alexie, there is a character named Thomas Builds-the-Fire who is considered an outcast in his community. The story starts out with Victor who you would assume is facing some hard times losing his job and having his father pass away. After finding out about his father’s death, Victor has to go to Phoenix, Arizona to pick up his father’s ashes, pickup truck and money from his saving. Unfortunately, Victor doesn’t have enough money and neither did anyone else on the reservation to get Victor to Phoenix so he turned to the tribal council. The tribal council was also short on money only able to give 100 dollars to Victor which was not enough. When Victor was cashing