Meg's Godfather Blog Week 3: Literary Feature Hunt

In The Godfather, there is a prominent symbol of doors throughout the film.
Men and women are constantly being compared and contrasted, and as I said in a previous blog post, the sterotypes of the genders are put to the extreme. Doors are a symbol for separating the women from the men both personally and for business. At the end of the film, the perspective is from Kay, and the audience sees the door being shut in her face while the men talk inside. During the wedding, the women are whispering and listening outside the door to the office of Don Corleone. Permission is often needed for women to come inside the office. This symbol is a physical act of seperating the sexes.