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This moment may be the film’s most obvious reference to New York City’s decay in the mid-1970s. Taxi Driver was shot during a strike of the garbage disposal workers, when the city was literally engulfed in trash. More generally, Scorsese has commented thus:
When you live in a city, there's a constant sense that the buildings are getting old, things are breaking down, the bridges and the subway need repairing. At the same time society is in a state of decay; the police force are not doing their job in allowing prostitution on the streets, and who knows if they're feeding off it and making money out of it. (Christie and Thompson 60)
The decay Scorsese and Taxi Driver are referring to is historically specific, rooted in New York City’s postwar decline. While Taxi Driver chronicles Travis’s excessive response to the perceived decline of the city, perhaps more fundamentally, the decline of the city seems to engender the decline of the male hero — Travis’s inability to function in individual, collective, and heteronormative terms.
DISCUSSION PROMPT
Examine the above passage from a scholarly article that integrates a direct quote. Then write a paragraph that explains how the direct quotation was integrated into the paragraph. Explain the framing device the writer used to make the direct quotation flow seamlessly into the article.