Patrolman Mancuso’s approach to life is opposite to Ignatius’s. Mancuso believes that if he works hard, he can change his destiny. However, Ignatius believes that human life is controlled by a blind goddess, Fortuna, whose wheel of fortune decides people’s fates. This belief is based on Boethius’s writings in
The Consolation of Philosophy, which gained popularity in the medieval period. It was also written while Boethius was in prison and suggests that all of life is a prison of fate, from which humans cannot escape—a lesson which Ignatius seemingly wishes to teach Patrolman Mancuso.