gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic guilt that Scorsese's later work, we see what happens to J.R. when his religious guilt catches up with him...
A lot of things changed in my life when I quit drinking. The undeniable truth is that drinking played a huge role in my life. The simple act of quitting meant that things were going to change. That was kind of the point. If I wasn’t an alcoholic that would probably be the end of...
Blacking out after drinking alcohol for the first time may be understandable, painful and embarrassing but still understandable if it is your first time. If it happens repeatedly, then you're doing it on purpose and it is the result of inner urges, daemons, that your conscious mind can't ...
A lot of things changed in my life when I quit drinking. The undeniable truth is that drinking played a huge role in my life. The simple act of quitting meant that things were going to change. That was kind of the point. If I wasn’t an alcoholic that would probably be the end of...
encourages his son to be an alcoholic and is demanding and wanting everything to be his own way. That makes for a very poor husband, father and marriage. Take it a step farther and if that is all true your family can’t be that close with all of those things happening. No one is ...