Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Overview... a real-estate secretary with a secret. Marion embezzles $40,000 from her boss and hits the road, ending up staying at the Bates Motel after taking a wrong turn. Luckily, Norman Bates, the young hotel proprietor, is kind enough to take her in and offer his services during Marion’s time of need.
Personality… impulsive and self-interested. Marion may be breaking the law by stealing her boss’s money, but she doesn’t seem to be too repentant. Rather, she is too busy being worried that she will be caught. Hidden away at the Bates Motel, though, there is little from the outside world that can hurt her. Right?
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother. The place seems quirkybut fine—until Marion decides to take a shower.
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Years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, Norman Bates still can't quite elude the demands of "Mother." Vera Miles also returns as the inquisitive woman who is haunted by her sister's brutal murder and the ominous motel where it all occurred.
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Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist comes to see him to ask questions about his past.
