Originally posted by olivant:
Do you think Connie believed that all the people at her wedding were just other olive oil hucksters?
But why should anyone tell her they were? I believe Vito just didn't report who they were, and she understood it as well as others.
Originally posted by olivant:
In their business, nothing has to be explained because the questions are never really asked. The actual made members of the family understand when someone gets killed or just disappears. The other family members just accept it and keep cashing the checks.
But the question we discuss is that Connie did not accept the fact silently! When questions are not asked, of course no explanation is necessary. But this was not the case with Carlo, whose disappearance required explanation. We don't know who said, and what, to Connie. We know that when she saw Michael, she said "you killed my husband". That means, she was informed that he is dead. And whatever explanation was given, it didn't satisfy her. You do not really think it was written in the papers that Michael killed everyone? Just a new Mafia war. But she knew enough to conclude who did it. And she didn't believe that Carlo was anyone else's victim, because for many years she lived in expectation that her husband will be killed.
In her furious state she demanded his answer, and revengefully did everything to spoil, if not ruin, his personal happiness by disclosing his crimes to Kay.
It took a week for her to regain her senses and remember who and where she was, and then, as we know from the novel, she apologized to Mike and assured Kay that there was no truth in what she said.