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Character Role Analysis

Don and Wick

These two bros couldn't be more different. Wick's a sharply-dressed guy with his life together. Don's an unemployed alkie, living on his brother's handouts.

But by seeing these brothers together, our attention is brought to the fact that things could be super-different for either of them. Don could be a well-to-do gent, like his brother. Wick could be a down-and-out drunk. It's not fate that divides these two; it's addiction.