Originally Posted By: Sicilian Babe
Although allowing Carlo to live may have had a dual purpose, I believe that it was also something that Vito could never have brought himself to do.



I don't know if I agree with that SB. After all Carlo was not blood and he was responsible for the death of Vito's son.

If Vito was unable to bring himself to do that for the reason's that you've given, then he would never have approved or have been a part of Michael's plot for getting revenge.

Getting back to the novel for a moment, Michael even tells Hagen, after Vito's demise, something to the effect that he never realized how smart and calculating their father really was until they hatched the plan for revenge.

Vito was an integril part of the plan for vengence.


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