decides to do the right thing. We sense that Rick has made moral
choices in the past, and that he is a good man, but he seems calloused
and unfeeling. He also declares himself to be selfi sh—“I’m the only
cause I’m interested in”—and in some ways, we support his selfi sh
wish for Ilsa and him to live together, happily ever after. But he sacrifi
ces his completely understandable self-centered love interests for
the moral good