Maggie picked up a crude, colored-crayon drawing (by a child named K.Krueger) of a Krueger family portrait of three individuals - a mommy, a daddy (wearing a red/green striped sweater) and a child (of unknown gender).Thiswill be the high point of my day.It""s all downhill from here.He briefly introduced his conformist, emotionally-tight wife - a shrill and materialistic, frigid 40-ish wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) who sported color-coordinated gardening shears, gloves and clogs while snipping at roses ("American Beauties") lining her white picket fence, o superficially make her home""s appearance more beautiful and perfect.(Characteristics offilm noiralso abound within the film - unglamorous locations, rain-slicked streets, dimly-lit interiors and dark train passageways in a tale of doomed, unfulfilled and frustrated love.Signs of a return to normality and civilian life are everywhere.Their three faces are grouped together in a shot of the rear-view mirror.Homer is reluctant about being dropped off first: "I wonder if Wilma""s home?" Dreading facing Wilma and her reaction to his ""hooks,"" he suggests they instead go to Butch""s for a couple of drinks.