Guess the reason’s behind Soapy’s arrest.
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Soapy
Soapy is the main character of "The Cop and the Anthem" and the only character whose name we learn. We follow him through New York City one chilly fall night as he tries very hard to get arrested and sentenced to three months in jail. Why is Soapy so desperate to get arrested?
See, Soapy's home is a park-bench in Madison Square in New York City. This is all fine and dandy in the summer, but not good when the temperature drops below zero and the snow starts falling. Soapy could die if he stays outside. Soapy knows he could find free shelter, but he claims that such charity always comes with "humiliation" (5) and invasions of privacy. According to Soapy, going to jail is a more dignified way to get free room and board for the winter. So, Soapy's real goal isn't jail so much as a way to get food and shelter in the least humiliating way with the least sacrifice of his privacy.
Maybe this is why he ultimately decides that there is a better way to take care of his basic needs than receiving charity or getting arrested.
It might seem like we get very little information about Soapy in this story. That's because we do get very little information about Soapy in this story. Still, we do get clues, and we can explore those clues to get to know our unlikely hero a little better.
Soapy's Past
Early in the story we learn that for the past few years Soapy has been spending the warm parts of the year in New York City around Madison Square and his winters in the prison on Blackwell's Island. We get a vague sense of his life, which is devoted to getting the basic survival necessities. When Soapy hears the anthem coming from the church, we learn some things about his past before becoming homeless:
And the anthem that the organist played cemented Soapy to the iron fence, for he had known it well in the days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and ambitions and friends and immaculate thoughts and collars. (42)
This sentence really gives us a lot to think about. First, we notice is that Soapy is familiar with the anthem—he used to be a churchgoing man. It also tells us that Soapy, who is probably in his twenties or thirties, used to have family and friends. The fact that roses used to be in Soapy's life might hint that Soapy had a romantic interest or interests, and/or that he simply liked flowers and was interested in nature. By recognizing that he used to have ambitions, Soapy admits that he really doesn't have them anymore—or that his present ambitions (survival) aren't very ambitious.
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