Boss fits his name
He's the boss. From a glace, he is the stereotypical rich, politically savvy father that tries to maintain his pristine image from the public. In order to maintain this image he has adopted a very controlling personality in terms of his family and lifestyle. This public view of him is extrememly important in order to maintain his current lifestyle. To put it simply, he's living the good life. He has a house on the Gulf (or at least we think it's on the Gulf) with a nice little boat. He's wealthy and he knows it. He uses his wealth to influence those around him and to make sure nothing interferes with his life. Boss has this control issue about him that everything has to be perfect in his life and if something isn't up to his specifications then he feels a need to fix. From a certain point of view you can perceive his actions as just an over concerened father. He worries about his children's public appearance and even went as far as to pay five grand just to hide his son's little stag party (it's basically a bachelor party). Again, from a particular perspective this could be seen as caring for his son but when you look deeper in it may not be just that. What he might actually be doing is protecting his own image by preventing the public from having a negative view of his children. This would adversely affect his own life so the big question is: does he care about his children or just himself? I think there's two possibilites here. 1) Boss is simply an overbearing father who is trying to control his daughter's life and shape it in the way he sees best. He wants her to marry the person that will make her life the most financially stable and secure. Or 2) Boss is looking out for his own status. He needs to control his children's lives in order to secure the stability of his own. He even goes as far to say later on when speaking to Heavenly about her going into a convent, "a daughter in a convent would politcally ruin me." Either way he has a control issue.
Good Heavens
We get the chance to learn a little bit more about Chance's love interest in this scene. Previously, we thought that Heavenly was the one that didn't want to be with Chance. Now we know that it was her father that didn't want her with Chance. I really only have gathered one thing from her personality so far: she really just wants to be with Chance. Her heart continues to lie with him even after all these years.
I have the impression that Heavenly has a very strong female personality, especially for the time period. However, her father is just so overbearing that she can't seem to get what she wants out of life. She has the aspirations but not quite enough strength to go through with it. Or simply her father has that much more strength to keep her in check.
Tom and Nonnie
As of now these two are background characters. There's not much to say about either of them. Especially Aunt Nonnie. From what I've gather Tom is just the sad puppy that's trying to please its master. In this case his master is his father. He realizes that his father cares about Heavnely more than him and he tries at every turn to try and please Boss. However, he continues to just be a srew up that his father has to take care of all the time. This is something he seems to not realize. His character may become important later on as it is implied that he has a plan to remove Chance from St. Cloud, so until then we can only guess about his true personality.
Nonnie literally has about ten lines of dialogue so there is an extremely small amount to go off of. From what I can see she is the kind aunt that nobody really seems to give the time of day. I think she's the type of person to always think of family first and that "love conquers all." But until we get her to talk a little more that thought is really only a guess.
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