Alfred and Mr. Sawyer
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Miracle on 34th Street
MichaelMartinDeSapio — 10 years ago(December 26, 2015 07:54 AM)
When Alfred is having lunch with Mr. Kringle he mentions that Mr. Sawyer claimed that he (Alfred) "hates his father." I'm wondering if Mr. Sawyer was implying that Alfred had an Oedipal complex.
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!!!deleted!!! (47421091) — 10 years ago(December 28, 2015 06:22 AM)
Hating one's parent is not the same thing as having an Oedipal Complex (assuming such a thing exists-yuck).
I think Sawyer was just as Kris saw him: contemptible. He was not a happy person in his own life and either didn't recognize that someone else could be, or hoped to heap some of his misery on innocents. -
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joannabaroncelli — 9 years ago(December 13, 2016 09:47 AM)
I can understand Kris being furious about Sawyer's manipulaton of Alfred's mind and confronting him. While I can understand Kris bopping Sawyer on the head out of frustration when Sawyer was obviously dug in and immovable to any reasoning. But it wasn't really necessary and complicated things. Kris was planning on going to Mr. Macy and explaining the situation and I am sure Macy would have called in Sawyer and Alfred and gotten confirmation and delt with Sawyer. Kris' action prompted Sawyer to conjure up this phony excuse to get Kris out of the way. How Sawyer had the power to force Kris to go to Bellevue I still don't understand. Had he filed battery charges against Kris?