Throughout Mangione’s Mount Allegro, descent relations as primary been depicted as the inheritance of cultural heritage or background. In di Donato’s Christ in Concrete, however, descent and consent relations are also represented as the continuity between father and son, as Paul decides to become a bricklayer like his father after Geremio’s death. Throughout Paul’s first conversation with Nazone, di Donato repeats the idea of Paul inheriting his father’s skills in bricklaying, concluding that “[if] you are truly son to Geremio, then you are born artist of brick and mortar” (Mangione 69). Defining the importance of craftmanship as a facet of traditional Italian culture, Paul not only inherits, through descent, his father’s identity as a craftsman,
