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Dwight Hansen is the main antagonist in the movie This Boy's Life. He is the abusive stepfather of young Tobias Wolff, and the abusive husband of Tobias' mother Caroline. He is a fictionalized version of Wolff's real stepfather, who died in 1992. In the 1993 film adaptation, he was portrayed by Robert De Niro, who also played Johnny Civello in Mean Streets, Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part ...
Dwight Character Analysis. Dwight, Jack ’s mother’s new beau in Seattle, appears at first to be a somewhat bumbling, odd man whose devotion to Rosemary is both wholesome and serious. When Rosemary has a hard time deciding whether or not she should marry Dwight, however, she sends Jack to live with him and his three children from a previous ...
Dwight. Dwight is unmistakably the antagonist of the memoir, a villain who steals Jack's happy childhood right out from underneath him. Dwight is cruel, a monster whose only motivation is to degrade and defile everyone he can. The worst of Dwight's brutality is directed at Jack, who is rendered helpless by Dwight's unflinching adult authority ...
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Dwight Hansen : Liar, whore, liar, whore and you know it! Dwight Hansen : [telling Toby to punch him] Now come on! Come on! Let's go, god damn it, let's start, you little fuckin' sissy, all your god damn fuckin' life, quitter, gonna be a god damned quitter, let's go, damn you! Don't go all shy and delicate on me, you're acting as sissy as ...
As soon as we got home, Dwight sat down at the kitchen table with a glass of Old Crow and reviewed my performance. (11.23) The booze suggests that Dwight is a drinker—and seriously, who the heck slams back a glass of Scotch while talking to their kid?—and also that his criticism isn't entirely under control, since he's drunk while he does it.
This Boy's Life (titled onscreen as This Boy's Life: A True Story) is a 1993 American biographical coming-of-age drama film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It is based on the eponymous memoir by author Tobias Wolff. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin. It marks the first time Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro ...
Dwight's eldest daughter, for whom Jack harbors a secret infatuation. Norma is sweet and chipper in her youth, and loves Bobby Crow, a good-hearted boy from school whom she calls "Bobo." Later, Norma decides that Bobby is not ambitious enough to marry and settles for Kenneth, a miserable man who turns her tired and morose.
