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The Cop and the Anthem
Summary: Essay is about a man who tries many a times in vain to get arrested in the short story "The Cop and the Anthem."
In view of some people, the United States is the country of rich, prosperous, civilized, and equal. And people living in such a country certainly have a good mental and physical life. It looks like a promised land, a heaven of lots of people. However, we will find some differences as reading the short story "The Cop and The Anthem" of O. Henry. In this story, he reflected a double life of the society in this country. He wrote about the lives of poor and tramp people in New York as well as the way the homeless in the city think of the prison.
The character Soapy in the story may be represented to the poor, the homeless in city. His home, his place is a bench in the part and it seems that he is facing to problem of the winter is coming soon. How to find...
This section contains 681 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |