<Tab/>Split personalities and secret identities have always played a major part in the characters of pulp fiction and film. They present themselves as polar opposites of what their lives truly are, which, in actuality are cold-blooded killers or hired hitmen. They must portray themselves as completely different people in order to accomplish their goal. The two lives work against each other, however, one haunting the other while the other one …showed first 75 words of 1821 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1821 total…a beautiful condo for Dickie. He rights himself letters and he even sends himself a Christmas present. Tom attempts to keep the two lives apart, but it is still always himself. The film portrays this very well by having a split screen view, showing him in both of his lives. When Dickie's old friend Freddy starts to catch, however, Tom loses it again and is forced to kill him, much like he did with Dickie.