Originally posted by The Last Woltz:
This board doesn't seem that friendly to newbies right now, but this touched on what I always felt was a major, perhaps THE major, theme in the films: the struggle to reconcile traditional Sicilian/mafia traditions with changing American realities....
One of the things the book does that the movies don't have time to do is explain how, in his time in Sicily, Michael
comes to understand and maybe identify with the traditions he was born to.
