Others, however, view him as a demeaning caricature drawn by exploitative taskmasters-and his, ahem, innovations thus appear as clever subversion of authority. Some, especially frustrated employers, see him as an accurate representation of their errant charges. No one in their house has any dinner that night.
Too lazy to carry them back in a bucket, however, he decides to release the crabs and have them scurry on home ahead of him. In one story, he is tasked by his mother to bring some crabs home for dinner. Juan, whose moniker is Filipino for ‘lazy,’ is a young man who tends to get in trouble for corner-cutting ploys. One of the more infamous characters in Philippine literature is the Picaresque Juan Tamad.
