harroldinho98 's review for:

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

4.0

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Vito Corleone is a polarizing figure, a true antihero. For someone that cares so much about his family, his community, his friends and creates his own sense of laws and morality he created an empire. The one thing that I believe that was flawed in the way his decisions was hhis treating of Carlo Rizzo, if someone, regardless of whether or not that is your daughters husband, assaults your daughter, you have to handle it. I believe Michael at the end did touch on the fact that he couldn't deal with it since he knew he was at the end of his career and he maybe wanted his successor to take care of it to spare him the burdon of dealing with it. Regardless of this you have such a carismatic man that only deals with rational reason and logic, not spurned by emotion even in the event of his sons death, he immediately starts planning and makes it clear he will not retaliate irrationally. The way Mario Puzo crafts the story is very easy to follow and impactful especially since it does not start with the background of vito, but at his peak and then backtracking after you have some context into what he becomes.