Hitchcock's Psycho
Marion Crane, a working woman from Phoenix, Arizona, is fed up with having to sneak around and "steal lunch hours" to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who refuses to get married because he doesn't have any money. Sam claims he wants to wait until he pays off some of his debts because he doesn't want Marion and him to live "in a storeroom behind a hardware store in Fairvale." Marion is motivated by her desire to settle down and have a family with Sam and to have financial freedom. Surprisingly, by chance, her opportunity for freedom arrives in the form of $40,000 due to a situation that allows her to easily take the money. The first half of the film, Psycho, explores Marion's divided personality as she struggles with her decisions which lead her to a further series of chance occurrences. Ironically, these chance occurrences lead to her final entrapment at the Bates Motel.Marion is motivated to steal money from Cassidy by her desire to be with Sam, to gain freedom from her dead end job and by her desire to obtain financial freedom. Marion and Sam carry on their "affair" in an anonymous hotel room on her lunch break. Before returning to work, Marion reveals that she is ready to get married and have a respectable relationship with Sam a
The Bates Motel is only approximately 15 miles to Fairvale; she may have made it to Fairvale if she hadn't traded her car. However, Marion doesn't realize that the shower would be her final place of entrapment and that she would never make it out. We can even have dinner, but respectably. And for all of it, we never budge an inch. " However, Sam's indebtedness to his deceased father's debt and alimony to his ex-wife prevents their marrying. Once Marion returns home with the money, she hesitates with her decision. Lowery, returns to the office with a wealthy customer, Tom Cassidy. " Marion, horrified at the thought of going to jail, immediately starts her engine. Marion works at a real estate office in Phoenix, Arizona. She has worked for this company for 10 years, but she doesn't make much money and feels that her job is a dead end. Sam doesn't want Marion and him to live in poverty. Marion's desire for freedom turns into reality when a sequence of chance circumstances make it possible for her to walk away with $40,000. " After realizing that her life could be a lot worse than it is, Marion tells Norman that she stepped in a private trap and she is going back to Phoenix to pull herself out "before it's too late.
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