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- From: danielw@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Daniel Wink)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:50:53 GMT
- Subject: Re: Citizen Kane question
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- >> I watched Citizen Kane yesterday. I was a bit let down by the ending but
- >>I suspect that I didn't catch the significance of it all.
- >> What was the thing that they threw in the fire at the end with Rosebud
- >>written on it and what was its significance? I was led to believe that the
- >>whole mystery would be revealed in the last few moments, so I think this must
- >>have been a key to the mystery. Could someone please explain it all to me?
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- >> Thanks, David.
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- The thing in the fire is (I think) the sled we saw
- Kane playing with in the snow when he was a child. This is
- referred to when he drops the glass-ball with the snow scene
- in; it's as if that's when he remembers being most happy, and
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