Quickly, he becomes disillusioned, down on his luck, and low on money after being conned.Back on the street and at a acky bar, he meets another impoverished, vagrant street hustler from the Bronx, a sickly, repulsive-looking, unshaven and scruffy bum named Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman).No never," and then hangs up on them.He intimidates he timid, deaf Aunt Rose into keeping quiet to his wife about his financial failings - and that she has lost her furniture.With sharp observational skills, he watches as SS Officers at another table are photographed - he sizes up the power elite in his high-stakes gamble to cultivate heir friendship.She claimed that she was willing to consider a lower sales price: ("Money""s always a problem, isn""t it? Tell him to come back").