Hitchcock's Psycho. This essay explores Marion Cranes' motivations to steal $40,000, her struggle with her sense of guilt, and the circumstances that lead her to Bates' Motel.

Marion Crane, a working woman from Phoenix, Arizona, is fed up with having to sneak around and "steal lunch hours" to meet her lover, Sam Loomis, who refuses to get married because he doesn't have any money. Sam claims he wants to wait until he pays off some of his debts because he doesn't want Marion and him to live "in a storeroom behind a hardware store in Fairvale." Marion is motivated by her desire …

…make it out. All of the chance occurrences that lead to this scene suggest a deadly pattern of fate. At first it may seem like a coincidence, but it was actually fate that leads Marion to the Bates Motel. Hitchcock wants the audience to know that Marion isn't in control, fate is. The events that happened to Marion were obviously meant to be. So does anyone really have control over his or her own life?