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What makes Rick Blaine so cynical and bitter and hard-edged in the early parts of the movie? Why has he appeared to have given up his fight to stop the Nazis?


What makes Rick Blaine so cynical and bitter and hard-edged in the early parts of the movie? Why has he appeared to have given up his fight to stop the Nazis?


Blaine, Rick, the central character of Casablanca, is representative of most Americans of the late 1930's and early 1940's, being self-indulgent and pessimistic about serving anymore good causes. He supports this belief by saying more than once, "I stick my neck out for nobody." But as the story progresses he becomes more concerned with the lives of those ...