This makes him a kind of modern-day Don Quixote or Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp—an endearing innocent and a wise fool. He tilts at windmills not with a lance, but with a lunchbox and a desperate hope, which leads to a series of comical and often disastrous misadventures.
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Calvino mocks the mid-century "economic miracle" of Italy, showing how advertising and supermarkets alienate people from the origins of what they consume. This makes him a kind of modern-day Don