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...around (18), moll- buzzards (15), hexin’ (18), and jackrolling (15). He also knows about the cars that are on the street because while he is getting questioned he hears a Ford V-8 pull into the rear of the station (22) and he also heard either a ’38 Chevvie or a ’37 Ford dragging its safety chain against the car tracks (26). All of these facts show that Bruno “Lefty” Bicek is just a boy from the streets of Chicago. Bruno’s social setting is very significant to his fate as well. His clothes do not fit him (15), which demonstrates that he is poor, and cannot afford to buy newer clothes. His ethnic background is Polish, who are looked down upon by the Irish because they are higher class than the newly arrived immigrants of Poland (25). Bruno’s education stopped at the eighth grade and he no longer went to school after that (25). He then was involved in the Social Athletic Club (SAC) and was their first string left handed pitcher (16). He is a good pitcher but he is not great because he is not called “Iron-Man Bicek” or “Fire-ball Bruno”(16). He throws out his arm while playing baseball and then gets into boxing. He is undefeated at boxing, but both of his knockouts were rigged. Seeing that he has no future in boxing he joins the “Baldheads” (25) which is a gang. The gang leads him to crime which then inevitably to his arrest. The psychological mood of the story from his arrest all the way until the jail cell door closes is entrapment. Entrapment is what police use to get a confession the police start to surround him in a semicircle (15) in the beginning of the interrogation to get him nervous. They instill fear in him by breaking the blade of his knife with the billy (16). They use the silent treatment on him and Bruno hears the street cars, ticking of a clock (18) which represents his time running out, bells of St. John’s an allusion to him being Catholic, and the scratching of the reporters pen (20). The police tell Bruno they will hold him on an open charge until he starts to talk (17). Bruno knows the punishment...