from society

This is a funny story. When winter is coming, soapy begins to make efforts to enter his winter residence, blackwell prison, and tries every means to get the police to arrest him. But they were unsuccessful. Influenced by the music of the hymns in the church, he decided to give up his old life and start over, but he was arrested by the police and sent to prison "as he wished". The author USES a light and humorous style to describe soapy, a tramp, who makes ridiculous attempts to achieve his own ridiculous goals, such as eating and drinking in restaurants, smashing shop Windows, molesting young women, disturbing the peace, and stealing. It is incredible and even more ridiculous that the police officers showed a kind of "tolerance" instead of punishing these illegal actions. It was a fine irony that when soapy gave up his idea, the "permissive" police arrested him for doing nothing. Thus, the ridiculous becomes pitiful, pitiful, pitiful...