Charlie looks shrewdly at Goodwin here as the two play cards. Goodwin must decide whether Charlie is bluffing, just as he must decide, of course, whether Charlie is bluffing about his role in the quiz show's alleged deception. Redford spends a lot of time nuancing the relationship between these two. They seem on one level to respect and even like each other, but circumstances dictate that they ultimately have to "square off." Their relationship has social and economic dimensions, because Goodwin is Jewish, and comes from a lower economic bracket than Charlie. In an important scene that establishes many of the issues pertaining to their relationship, the two are having lunch and happen to run into Charlie's father, the famous English Professor, Mark Van Doren. Let's listen to part of that conversation:
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