Mafia Romance
revenge. When she is raped, she feels humiliated. Conversely, behavior in her mature years often seems to defy analysis. Although she professes great affection for her "uncle" Paulie Messina, a thug who apparently treated her with genuine kindness, she ends up ratting him out without batting an eye to narcotics agents. She strikes up what appear to be friendly ties with those same agents and, at the same time, traffics behind their backs with Tommy Luca. In fact, Arlyne seems to feel no loyalty to anyone, an observation that, at times, made me suspect her of being a sociopath swimming through life like a shark, titillating human emotions for her own benefit. However, a close look at her sto