Thompson searches for the meaning of Rosebud. As Thompson says near the end of the movie: "Perhaps Rosebud was something he couldn't get or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything. I don't think any word can expla

in a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a piece in a jigsaw puzzle." It is possible that identifying the meaning of puzzle of Rosebud solves the mystery of Charles Foster Kane's life. All parts of the great jigsaw puzzle that is his American Life. The mystery of Rosebud- combined with the mastery of Orson Welles and his collaborators-draws the audience's focus back to Kane again and again. The sled itself is not the answer.Thompson explains what Rosebud is, but not what Rosebud means. The film's construction shows how our lives, after we are gone, survive only in the memories of the living. In the viewer's mind, there is the Kane who made shadow figures with his fingers, and the Kane who hated the traction trust; the Kane who chose his mistress over his marriage and political career, the Kane who entertained millions, the Kane who died alone.

After the scene in which the reporters d

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