What vice does each relationship Doc have represent? The whole frame of speaking about virtue is perhaps more of a square community narrative, but I think there is a sense where ethics can step out of lifestyle, sect, background, and class. Shasta is youth and lack of loyalty, chasing money. The virtue is loyalty, love. The movie has them getting back together in the end, like all Hollywood ending, they are false and feel good pablum. Wolfmann's vice is that his reform is too late, like Lee Atwater. And then the forces of capitalism send him to a sanitorium to neutralize his insights perhaps gained from drugs. The virtue is generosity, the kindness of building good housing at an affordable rate. Sloane is glamour and again loyalty. She loves Mickey but she has her side piece. They're the swingers who stay together. It's hard to stay together around money and the sexual revolution, the changing times. There are a host of women who's vice is promiscuity, though I don...