It is quite interesting to note that Hitchcock was a family man-a happily married man who had a warm sense of family unity. From what we infer about American married life, its role, its nature and its fragilities, it is evident that marriage and love are neither synonymous nor coextensive. Marriage seems a socially sanctioned, institutionalised bond on one end and feelings of admiration and harmony on the other end having nothing to do with one another. Love and marriage exist as different entities in family. For Hitchcock love is always a possibility and marriage a fact. “Although he was a family man” claims Frank Nugent, “his pictures would have been no help to a man wondering how to become one” (17). No other director during the time
