encountered in these alien lands, have
             at last culminated into nothing and that he is left with only uncomfortable
             memories that haunt him throughout his life.
             In the 'Taxi driver' the plight of the veteran fighters is highlighted
             in a similar perspective. Here the hero, a retired war veteran comes back
             to his home town only to witness the decadence of the society and the lack
             of values that seems to plague it. Here we see the veteran who cannot
             integrate himself back into society, and so feels socially alienated. We
             see that he finds himself in a no man's land where he seems to be quite
             lonely and distraught over the changes that have happened to the society
             that he left a few years before. The values that he fought for, the ideals
             that he stood for and the dreams that he hoped to fulfill on returning to
             America from the treacherous valleys where he fought a daily war, seems so
             distant and alien to him. He is mentally agonized to see that the world
             around him has transformed so rapidly that he seems to be a to
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