Originally Posted By: AppleOnYa

On another note:

"-slapped his wife and rejected her love"

He slapped his wife after she blurted to him in a very venemous way that she had aborted his child, and that she would not bring another one of his sones into the world. Doesn't make it right, but it's fair to say that she drew that out of him. Also, he did not 'reject' her love...he simply could not offer the same love in return. He did try but it wasn't in him.

"-ordered the suicide of a broken old man"

Unlike Fredo, Frankie knew the consequenses of what he'd done and the price he would have to pay.


The closing of the door in Kay's face is to my mind the coldest scene in the movie-just as much as Fredo's murder. I think that Michael did deliberately reject any possibility of reconciliation or love there-again out of pride.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.