For wherever he sun rises and sets in the city""s turmoil or under the open sky on the farm, life is much the same; sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.They pass by and overhear a scruffy, experienced, eccentric, oothless old gold prospector named Howard (Walter Huston, the director""s father) who has gathered an enthralled audience while describing he adventurous hunt for gold:Howard: Gold in Mexico? Why sure there is...He was supposed to be so graceful and agile.I""d actually like to see him play again, o let him play, to right an old wrong.Annie was semi-supportive, but worried about their finances if he plowed down one of their cornfields: ("Are you actually hinking of doing this?").My own boy with a strange girl and not so thin, if you understand my meaning...The next thing you know, he goes to Vietnam...I do not understand, Father.I understand nothing anymore, nothing...Can you explain? Can anyone explain?In each other""s company on the way to Welsh""s neighborhood bar, the steelworkers jam into Mike""s old white Cadillac.Almost every morning, bare-chested Jesse woke up covered in sweat after another nightmare (symbolic of AIDS-related nightsweats?).