The 1940s boxing champion/bum blindly, obtusely, and stupidly inflicts wounds upon himself (mostly outside the ring in his personal and marital life with sibling rivalry, obsessive and irrational jealousy, and domestic abuse) while he also legally brutalizes opponents in the ring.Cora applies lipstick with a small vanity mirror, and hen shuts the door to the adjoining living quarters of the cafe.In the film""s poignant closing with Nellie, Eva honestly expressed her loneliness, her slight fear and emptiness, and her loss of love.Scarlett: Oh, Pa.You talk like an Irishman.Gerald: It""s proud I am that I""m Irish, and don""t you be forgetting, Missy, that you""re half-Irish, too.