Michael uses a linear, cause and effect manner of looking at problems. This leads to many murders such as the “baptism of blood” when Michael secures his family’s seat of power by having all other threats eliminated during his godson’s baptism. He is virtually unable to cope with problems internally, always finding a way to solve them externally. When he falls in love with Appollonia from afar, he proposes marriage before even meeting her. He has just come back from WW II as a veteran hero, then he insists that he can solve the “Turk”(Sollozzo) problem by killing Sollozzo and the police captain.
Michael prefers to problem solve externally. He stops this resistance, however, when all of his family’s power is threatened and he becomes the only one capable of preserving it. Michael resists association with his family at first, indicating that he plans to be with Kaye and not get involved in the family business. In the end, he is organizing the execution of these crimes as the family’s new Don, having reasoned they are necessary. He begins by insisting that his family’s crimes belong to his family, not to him. Michael changes from believing what his family does is wrong to believing that his family’s crimes are a necessary evil.
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