Arthur Penn's Film Clyde Barrow

According to Arthur Penn’s film, Clyde Barrow was a pretty boy outlaw who basked in the attention and notoriety. The only reasoning for Clyde’s crime spree appears to be his quest to impress his girlfriend Bonnie, and to become wealthy. Nell his sister, leads us to believe Clyde didn’t posses much of a work ethic. She recalls a time when Clyde came home early from his job at Proctor and Gambles with his wrist wrapped, when she enquired why his wrist was taped up Clyde “explained patiently and sweetly that he had sprained it and had to knock off from work.” Shortly after this exchange, Nell recalls Clyde tying a neck tie using his sprained wrist “just as well as the other one.” When she confronts him again he confesses. Clyde says, there isn’t