Looking Through a Window In Citizen Kane
The role of windows in Citizen Kane seem to be an integral one, the windows prevent two areas from interacting with one another, but allows them to acknowledge one another. Welles shows that no matter with what age or no matter how much experience is behind a character, they cannot break the power of separation that a window can create. As Jerry Thompson (William Alland) reads through the manuscript of Walter Thatcher (George Coulouris) the scene dissolves into a flashback of Charles Foster Kane as a child playing in the snow. ... Kane’s boarding house looking out at Charles playing outside. ... Kane (Agnes Moorehead) and Walter Thatcher. ... Kane (Harry Shannon) and ultimately affixing itself in the den. ... Kane and Mr. ... Kane in the upper right, and the window, showing Charles, in the upper center.