Soapy comes to be the only main character in the story. He is a homeless person, who is looking of a place to spend few months of the upcoming winter. It is not an easy task, especially in such a city as New York, and Soapy clearly understands it. The best place for him appears to be a prison, so Soapy desperately tries to get arrested and be condemned to three months of imprisonment.
At the end of the story, there appears another character – the cop, who gets Soapy arrested.
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It isn't my body that's sick. It's my soul. For the first time in my life I've viewed the horrible pit into which I've tumbled: the degraded days, unworthy desires, dead hopes, wrecked faculties, base motives, that have made up my useless...
B. Freedom can mean different things to different people.
a. Soapy sits on their park bench
