Citizen Kane By Orson Wells

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He spends most of his life in solitude. Although he was married twice, he always stayed alone. This was because of his incapacity of felling love, which was caused by his insecure childhood. Kane was unwillingly taken away from his mother as a young child; this single event molded Kane into the narcissistic man he became. The only time Kane felt safe was when he was under the care of his mother. She was the only person he ever was able to show feelings for. This hugely affected his relationships with women, as well as people in general. All of the women in his life leave him behind in some way. His last word before he died was “rosebud,” the name of the sled he was riding before his was ripped away from his family. “Rosebud” was not merely a sled, it was much more than that. His happiness lied in that single materialistic object. The sled represents his innocence and carefree happiness of childhood. His last happy memory was when he was playing on his sled. This was the ...

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