Although he first answered that it seemed to be a "really good deal," he refused to be scared and intimidated by them, and provided an alternative: "How about I give you the finger and you give me my phone call?" He then went further: ("You can""t scare me with this Gestapo crap..Look at your daughter.She""s going to a big party tonight.And she""s got to wear a dress that""s two years old.How do you expect her o get anywhere?In reality, Alice has a modest, middle-class upbringing and poor family without, in her opinion, proper social graces, but she is supportive of her father""s self-pitying plight and sympathetic o the affliction brought on him by her status-conscious mother.[As a conjurer, she literally holds his image and his actions in the palm of her hand as she begins to manipulate, connive, and control him.The film""s poster taglines emphasized:It delves without compromise into the hungers that lie deep within us all!A searching look into the innermost depths of a woman""s heart.It kinda makes you think different.I don""t want to be spending the rest of my life answering a factory whistle instead of a bugle call.I""ll be cooped up in a shipping room all day.I want to do something worthwhile.The Rev.excuses Jim""s ungrateful attitude as tiredness:Rev.:...after a good night""s sleep, you""ll be ready o take up where you left off at the factory.A soldier of peace instead of a soldier of war.Jim: I don""t want to be a soldier of anything.You see, Mom.I want o get out, away from routine.I had enough of that in the Army...I""ve been doing engineering work in the Army and that""s the kind of work I want to do now.A man""s job where he can accomplish things, where he can build, construct, create, do things.Rev.: That sounds very nice, but after all, a job in the hand""s worth wo in the bush.To appease them and follow their pre-determined plan, Jim starts work at the Parker Manufacturing Company ("The Home of Kumfort Shoes") the next day.