But that's just it Cristina, you cannot "remove" her and make her independant of that era. It was the era that she was portrayed in and therefore she acted accordingly. She did not know any better because of the era that she was living in.

However in the book, she is fully aware of what Vito is all about because she goes on to teach Kay that she must, like her, go to church everyday and light a candle for her husband's soul. So obviously she was fully aware of the kind of man her husband really was, and the kind of man that her son was turning into.

She stepped up and took control in the spiritual sense, in interceding with God for her husband's passage into the afterworld. But she kept her place in her home, just like most of the woman from that era, who were not Americanized, did.


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