Question

Explain how the old man in Coyote Finishes his work is an archetype?

Answer 1

An archetype is a very old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated throughout the ages. Characters, plots, images, themes, and settings can all be archetypes. Coyote is a trickster archetype such as Bugs Bunny and the Joker.
In the book it says “The girls did not like him. But he was smart. He could change himself around and trick the women.” Bugs Bunny does something similar, cross-dressing. Bugs frequently cross-dresses in his cartoons to confound a male opponent. In the episode “What’s Opera, Doc?” Elmer goes after Bugs, but his pursuit is ended when he sets his eyes on the stunningly beautiful Valkyrie Brunhilde which is just Bugs disguised as a woman.
Coyote would “Sometimes go too far with some trick and get someone killed” as it says in the book. The Joker from Batman would do this all the time. Except it was on purpose. In the 2008 film “The Dark Knight” The Joker kills people each day unless Batman reveals his identity. In one of the comic books Joker brutally murdered the second Robin, Jason Todd, who survived a crowbar attack, but not the explosion of the building that the Joker left him in.
The Joker and Bugs Bunny are both trickster archetypes like Coyote. Bugs Bunny tricked men into thinking he was a girl, and Coyote tricked the girls. The Joker and the Coyote would sometimes get someone killed with a trick of theirs.