Citizen Kane Breakfast Montage

The breakfast montage scene in Citizen Kane was rich in story telling. Just the mornings that Kane and his wife experienced, exposes so much of their true feelings, and how their feelings evolve throughout the relationship. The first sequence Charles keeps interrupting his new wife Emily, by telling her, she’s beautiful, and how much fun they had the night before. The topics of the morning start becoming more serious and the conversation start to become more aggressive, as they continuously attack each other. One thing that keeps changing is their wardrobe. The wardrobe starts off as very casual and then becomes quite formal as they start feeling less open towards each other. Through out the breakfast sequence Emily starts becoming green with jealous rage when Charles spends more, and more time at the newspaper working on the Inquire. The ending sequence is probably the most important, and the most revealing of their relationship out of all of them. It shows a close up of Emily reading the Chronicle, and then it shows a close up of Kane reading the Inquire, which are the two rivalry papers, which also symbolizes the rivalry in their relationship. In the beginning they had started sitting in very close proximity to each other, and as these sequences drag on, the table starts becoming longer and longer, quite literally symbolizing a space in-between them, and shows them growing apart.