Marriage - “Monkey Business”
“Monkey Business” launches with Zizi getting prepared to wed,unconsciously, following the bereavement of his spouse: “ MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY! The marriage song begins. Its words , its slow, circular rhythms catch in the back of Zizi’s mind as he waits for the streetcar- the bride-groom walks with sureness- and, absently, he begins to twist his wife’s wedding ring around the knuckle of his little finger.” The unconscious wedding melody infers that Zizi is eager to re-wed. The marriage song rematerializes in his unconscious because he has strode the boulevard of a nuptial before. Additionally, ‘Monkey Business’ frames the bureaucracies of Jewish arranged marriage that transpire with the envelopment of third parties, specifically kinfolks, who operate as referential links between the latent couples.
Criminal Gangs - “Through and Through”
The narrator vibrantly reminiscences, “In 1927, in the Detroit Pick-Fort Selby Hotel, Thomas “Yonnie” Licavoli, who was six feet tall and weighed 210 pounds and who never in his life talked above a whisper, told the Big Guy himself, Al Capone, “Stay the hell out of Detroit. It’s my territory” The Big Guy agreed, and Yonnie’s name-which is everything in this business- was made. At the time he was waiting for the Purple and Little Navy gangs to finish each other off in the war they were having. The famous Collingwood Avenue Massacre was what finally ended the war. That and the ten-storey death leap pf a beautiful young woman, a known companion to one of the Purples.” Joseph Geha quotes timelines, gang tags and the press when specifying the spectacle of felonious gangs. The profound exposition of the gangs upholds that illegitimate gangs in America have been an aggravating trans-generational manifestation. The gangs endeavor to dominate demarcated zones so that they can profess their illegitimate supremacy. The brawl for control occasions bloodbaths and dehumanization of the wretched targets. Moreover, the disagreeable gang leader’s forenames embody the vehemence of their proscribed actions.
