Building the Boardwalk: Narrative Strategies in the Opening ...

The opening scene evokes an illegal world of secrecy, which is positioned ambiguously to the carnivalesque public world of the 1920s-era Atlantic City boardwalk. Immediately after the ship collects the whiskey in the opening, ... Nucky tells Margaret Schroeder candidly about his dead wife―or so it seems―during a meeting in his office; the hotel manager barges in on the naked couple of Nucky and his girlfriend Lucy, to discuss his lost funds at the hands of Rothstein's ...