Michael Moran, Sr.

Moran was no different to many men of his generation and position. His own life had been hard from poverty in his youth and traumatized by war in his early adulthood. The vague reference of fashionable clothing, sets the final leaving of the children around the 1950s. It was a time when all younger generations wanted better than their parents and their parents were at a loss to accommodate them.

Family and home is the center of Moran's universe. This is the one place and group of people he can control and dominate. There is only his family and the world outside of it. As new people come into the family, he tries to dominate them. His sense of family is those who will be obedient to him and think like him and work like him.

His black moodiness creates an insular and inward looking atmosphere...