One of the great things about the movie is the hypocricy of Vito and other charachters shown through out the godfather movies. The quote "we are not murderers" shows this.
Mike was a better don but Vito was a better father.
However it could be said that Vito was a bad Father who failed to protect his family. He didnt want the life he was living for his children. However all of his children joined the business mike, Sonny and Fredo. Vitos failure to keep his sons out of the business could be seen as a failure. He was a mafia don and this infleuenced his childrens decisions of what they wanted to becaome but even if his children didnt want the life, they were still sucked in to their fathers world (mike).
Vito was a better father then mike but he wasnt the ideal father.
What do you guys think?
I think Mike was good father, but a bad husband, or at the very least Kay made him look like a bad husband. I would have thought she would have been repulsed at Mike and his family from the beginning, with what she saw and knew. I suspect she hung in there for "perks", but then her high moral standards got the best of her.
