Mr. Cucuzza is the patriarch of the family who moves into the apartment below the Roths’ as part of the Good Neighbors program. Mr. Cucuzza, like Herman Roth, deeply opposes the spread of fascism in America, having seen what Benito Mussolini’s dictatorship did to his home country of Italy. Though the Good Neighbors program has nefarious purposes, Mr. Cucuzza ultimately does prove himself to be a good neighbor—he is protective of the Roths and even lends Herman a pistol so that he can defend his family against the rising threat of anti-Semitic violence.