The main theme of the short story titled “Riff-Raff” is the tense relationship between Canadian citizens and American citizens. Indeed, this story displays how Canadians' biased opinions of Americans are the cause of their hostile behaviour towards them, and vice-versa. For instance, because of the main character’s narrative (who is Canadian), the reader is led to believe that Americans speak a poor-quality language and so on that they are less educated (than Canadians) because they lack vocabulary. This stereotype is portrayed when the bus driver asks the main character (whom is on a solo…