警察与赞美诗解析

Vandalism
At the corner stands a shop where the plate-glass window is conspicuous（引人注目的）. Soapy takes a cobblestone and dashes it through the glass, after that, he indicates to a cop that it is he who vandalizes the plate-glass window. But the cop doesn't think a person who does something illegal will wait to be punished.
“Mashing” with a young woman
Soapy sees a young woman, Then he tries to mash her so as to be caught by the cop who is looking at him. Unexpectedly, she gives him a big hug and asks him to buy her a pail of suds. She is a prostitute, so Soapy dumps her at the next corner.
? Soapy: proud, lazy, idle，repentant(悔改的)
? The cop: muddle-headed（糊涂的；昏庸的） bulling the weak(恃强凌弱的)
含泪的笑
? 欧·亨利常以其辛辣俏皮的讽刺使读读者的情绪 在悲喜之间激荡，酸甜苦辣，感触至深。
The Cop and the Anthem
《警察和赞美诗》
By O ·Henry
Summary
A New York City tramp named Soapy, who sets out to get arrested so he can avoid sleeping in the cold winter as a guest of the city jail. Despite efforts at having dinner with no payment, vandalism, disorderly conduct, “mashing” with a young woman and stealing an umbrella, Soapy fails to draw the attention of the police. Disconsolately （愁闷地）, he pauses in front of a church, where an anthem inspires him to clean up his life — and ironically he is charged for doing nothing and sentenced to three months in prison.
Has a big supper without any payment
Soapy goes to a restaurant and has a big supper. And then he tells the waiter that he has no money to pay for this, and lets him call the cops to come to get him. But the waiter just throws him out. What's more, the cops just laughs at him and walks away.
? When Soapy breaks the glass of the shop, mashes with a young woman, takes the wrong umbrella and conduct disorderly, the cop doesn't arrest him. On the contrary, when he does nothing, the cop arrests him.
Petty theft
In a cigar store Soapy sees a well-dressed man
lighting a cigar. Then Soapy steals his umbrella
which sets by the door and insults him.
Unexpectedly, it is not his umbrella. So he dares not
? 4.Soapy stood still, with his hands in his pockets, and smiled at the sight of brass buttons.
metonymy
? 5.The policeman hurried to assist a tall blonde in an opera cloak across the street in front of a street car that was approaching two blocks away.
? metaphor, personification, metonymy(转喻，借代)，irony
? 2. For years the hospitable Blackwell's had been his winter quarters. personification，irony
? 3.Up Broadway he turned, and halted at a glittering café, where were gathered together nightly the choicest products of the grape, silkworm and the proto palsm. irony, metonymy
? We can know the nature of the capitalist society. People can not tell good from evil and make a clear distinction between right
and wrong.
? There is no strict law in the capitalist city. The law doesn't play a role in maintaining the social stability.
? Soapy一次次的“偶然”，展示了美国的现 状：他作恶的对象，恰巧是那些心术不正 的人，在街上见机缠住男人的女子，捡了 别人的雨伞就据为己有的买烟者。反映了 资本主义社会中风俗败坏、虚伪的外表、 丑恶的心灵。
Why the ending is surprising?
? 欧·亨利式结尾
character
to call the cop. But the cop just supports the woman with golden hair across the street instead of arresting Soapy.
Surprise ending
Finally, he pauses in front of a church, where an anthem inspires him to clean up his life. Unfortunately, he is charged for nothing and sentenced to three months in prison by the cop.
? 这篇文章”含泪的笑”是指将下层人们的辛酸 揉入逗趣的笑料，在苦笑中感受下层人民的 苦难。
? 大量运用比喻、夸张、拟人等修辞手法，以 渲染出悲剧的喜剧情调。
figures of speech
? 1. A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to the regular denizens of Madison Square, and gives fair warning of his annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the North Wind, footman of the mansion of All Outdoors, so that the inhabitants thereof may make ready.
Disorderly conduct
In front of the theatre, he acts a drunkard to disturb, but the cop thinks he is a Yale lad celebrating a football game which beats the team of Hartford College.
overstatement
Theme
? 揭露了资本主义社会是非颠倒、黑白错乱 的现实。
Daydreaming
Soapy sees a restaurant and wants to have dinner with no payment in order to put into the jail. But the waiter sees Soapy‘s threadbare （衣衫褴褛）clothes, so he refuses to serve him and pushes him to the sidewalk.