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Someday a real rain will come and wipe this scum off the streets.
— Travis Bickle · Taxi Driver
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker pictures a big downpour as a kind of city-wide scrub, washing away everything they find filthy or unwanted. It's a bleak, sweeping fantasy of cleansing, and it shows a worldview that sees the streets as dirty and hopes for something drastic to fix that.
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