Analysis of the Taxi Driver's Theory of Masculinity Published in 1976, the screenplay is set in post-war America. Robert DiNiro, the main character of the film under the name Travis Bickle, claims to be a former Marine and a Vietnam War veteran who drives a taxi at night in New York. In his screenplay, The Taxi Driver, Martin Scoses suggests to Travis Bickle a main character who takes on the role of a cowboy, someone who embodies the masculine and violent traits of pre-counterculture America, but also someone who represents elements of Western mythology. To make his case, Scoses exploits Travis' need to fulfill his male cowboy persona, making him the hero of his own life. Travis' lack of clarity about what his country has become requires him to construct a masculine cowboy persona for himself and become the savior of the society in which he lives. to survive. Similar to a gunman riding alone through a corrupt city in search of justice, Travis sees himself as the person who needs to “clean up” the decaying city of New York. After his death, at the end of the film, the newspapers headline “A man who resisted...