What you pawn, I will admire

  In the short story, "What you pawn I will redeem" Jackson Jackson is the main character and he is a Spoken Native American. He is a homeless, jobless man who throughout the story finds his way around town surviving off free food, getting drunk on a regular basis, and has the company of his two friends, Rose of Sharon and Junior. Throughout the whole story Jackson always remains homeless, nothing changes, but he doesn't let that bring him down and always has a sense of humor to bring to the table, or just to himself.

  One example of Jackson being humorous is when he says, "All right, math genius,” I said to her, and then shouted for the whole bar to hear. Five drinks for everybody!” In my perspective Jackson is more of a witty kind of guy. He's very sarcastic to people which is ironic since he proclaims himself to be such a nice guy.

 Jackson seems like he doesn't take himself too serious, he seems to just go with the flow and doesn't let things get to him even, when he in a very dangerous situation. He's been through so much in his life that things don't faze him so much like they would to other people. For example when he jokes, "No, man, that place is awful,” I said. “It’s full of drunk Indians.” When the police offers to take him to the Detox he makes a remark like that even though, he himself is an Indian and is always drunk on a continuous basis. He makes a joke even though the bartender beat him up, he wandered around and then passed out on the railroad tracks. Even the cop in the story shakes his head and says, “You Indians. How the hell do you laugh so much? I just picked your ass off the railroad tracks, and you’re making jokes. Why the hell do you do that?”

Overall Jackson's outlook on life is extremely positive, and I excessively admire his attitude. He is a homeless man living on the toughest streets of New York, and still manages to keep a warm heart and a optimistic personality. When something bad goes wrong in his life, like other people he doesn't automatically let that keep him down, he makes it into a joke to keep himself happy and to remind himself that there are far worse off things in life too be depressed about.