What you see in a society everyday can change who you are as a person with limited life options. That is just what happened to Travis Bickle in the movie, Taxi Driver. As a taxi driver, Travis witnessed how society was ran with the prostitution, pornography, crime, and garbage on the streets and sidewalks. He became outraged and this turned his life around to a whole new direction. To satisfy his frustration, he buys a number of guns from a gun dealer.

There was one scene that reflected Travis as a character and how he was portrayed in the society in the 1970’s. He looked into a mirror of himself as if he confronted an imaginary person with a gun. He says “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin’ to? You talkin’ to me? Well I’m the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you’re talking to?” as well as saying this following line “Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is someone who stood up” Society literally changed Travis to a lonely man that he is forced to speak into a reflection of himself. He has no one to make contact with and he is his own enemy. The reflection portrayed what Travis truly was in society; a lonely, violent individual.