A series of rough chronological flashbacks tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane. The first flashback introduces Kane to Thatcher. Kane’s mother Mary runs a lodging house in rural Colorado. To compensate a payment for room and board, one of her tenants gives her stock to what she believes is a worthless mine, but in-turn is a working gold mine. She unexpectedly strikes it rich, she decides it would be better off to send Charles away at eight years old, to be raised by her banker, Thatcher. Naturally, Charles is infuriated and strikes Thatcher with the sled he’s been happily riding when Thatcher comes to take him away. Kane never sees his mother again. The abrupt separation keeps keeps Kane from growing past the needy and aggressive behaviors of a pre-adolescent. The relationship between Kane and Thatcher remained cold. In their years together Kane moves on to writing questionable journalism, but continued to constantly waste money and enrage Thatcher.
As an adult, Kane possess a significant amount of wealth and power but no sense of emotional security, this absence greater constraints his development and stimulates his resentment of authority. His great wealth causes Kane to have no motives to bring himself to social standards. He sees no reason to move past his disdain and sense of the world revolving around him, and never takes his place as a productive member of society. He takes control of Thatchers owned New York Inquirer with idealistic intentions at the start, but soon began to thwart his ideas in order to gain control over his environment and