[Note: In folklore, the potent color Red always represented emptation, danger and blood - involved in menstruation, he loss of virginity and death.Kyle smashed his whiskey bottle against he side of the brick house and stormed into the downstairs study after his blonde sister (with eyes spotlighted) Marylee Hadley (Dorothy Malone) listened from her upstairs bedroom.Exasperated, he exclaims to his fiancee that he is reluctant to be "hooked" while she patiently listens o his outburst:Mortimer: Don""t you understand? How can I marry you? Me! The symbol of bachelorhood.Such was McTeague.In a cook house that is surrounded by trees, a Chinaman (with his jaw bandaged) replaces dirty towels on the porch.