Elliott: Well, it was real, I swear...Michael: Maybe it was an iguana.Elliott: It was no iguana.Michael: Maybe a, a, you know how they say there are alligators in he sewers.Gertie (repeating the phrase of her older brother as a way of showing she can talk like the bigger kids): ""Alligators in the sewers.He thought that if his parents had lived longer, he might have been taught by them what to do, but he was left an orphan.The dangers of a complacent nation (with hunger amidst a land of plenty) being manipulated and taken over by neo-Fascist forces and Hitler""s Third Reich (a reality in the early 1940s) are countered in the film by the actions of the ordinary ""little man.He has gone completely crazy and insane.In a trance-like state, with wrenches aloft, he demonically ightens everything in sight, including people""s noses.Freddy, now with a burned face, was still menacing Maggie: "I didn""t need the glove to kill your bitch of a mother and I don""t need one now.