Bullets smash a whiskey bottle next to the sign and another one that is tied and hanging from the sign.McTeague proceeds further along the track with the rescued, injured bird in his hand.Another miner maliciously hits his hand and the bird is carelessly knocked away from his hand.Anger grows on McTeague""s ransformed face to reveal his more violent side.In a rage, he grabs he miner, heaves him up over his head, and tosses him off the track down into a ravine where he lands in running water.He was madder than I""d ever seen him.As punishment for deceiving him, he went and shot my dog.") To keep Holly occupied and away from Kit, Holly""s father demands that she take more music lessons:He made me take extra lessons every day after school and wait there till he came to pick me up.Director Charles Vidor lavished admiration on her in this film, helping her to reach her apotheosis as the reigning Hollywood 40s love goddess with this immortal role.And I find the moment that I make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor, and likely to remain so." The snobbish professor contemptuously sings-talks that he is a "quiet living man" without the need for a woman in "An Ordinary Man":I""m an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance,to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants.