Lost in Yonkers
Does Grandma play a trick on Jay?
What trick does Grandma play on Jay that she also played on Uncle Louie?
What trick does Grandma play on Jay that she also played on Uncle Louie?
The boys joke about selling Grandma's hair to the army to use as barbed wire, they joke about the fact that someone "dropped a horse" on Grandma and she still hasn't gotten over it. In Lost in Yonkers, laughter is a medicine, a respite from the hardships of life, a way of coping with tragedy. Grandma is not afforded much humor, but the grandsons, third-generation immigrants, are able to see the humor in their circumstances more clearly.