The narrator in Sorrentino’s “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” refuses to take the man with the umbrella to the police station because:
* He thinks the police would be just as likely to arrest him.
* He does not want to be bothered with all the questioning.
Explanation:
The characters in this short story go round and round over the same repetitive behavior cycle, and even when the narrator thinks about several ways to make the other man stop he never does any of them since he finds negative point on doing it, in the case of the police we have this lines in the story “It would have been an unprecedented case. The officer would have looked at me suspiciously, would have asked for my papers, and begin asking embarrassing questions. And he might even have ended up placing me under arrest.”
