His blonde, young and vivacious American wife Katherine ""Katie"" (Jocelyn Brando, Marlon Brando""s sister) is clad in a checkered apron in their simple yet respectable, wood-paneled home of the 1950s.Allan realized that Linda, who often craved attention (and fawning over) from Dick, also often felt neglected and ignored...Hell, what do I got to stay around here for? I got places to go, right?"Joe""s lonely, unfulfilled youth is reflected in a series of fragmented flashbacks about his past boyhood during his cross-country rip across the American heartland, after he boards a bus toward he big city of New York.She followed him up a rainy, rocky and steep cliff-face, then turned and approached a rift marked by four pointed tree trunks."" I don""t want tips from he kitty.I""m in the big game with the big players...In brief, from now on, the best of everything is good enough for me.[Throughout the script, there are numerous allusions o animals - here, Sidney is reminded of his desperate aspirations o rise above his low-dog, self-loathing status as a former pool hall gopher - or as a shrimp or mouse, by ruthlessly playing the "dog eat dog" game.