Questions needing answers.

Jim pretty much just cloned what happened in his own life as a child. His father left him as a youngster and he repeated the pattern. It affected him deeply. That is based on John Lennon's early life as this is what happened with Freddie Lennon and John did the same with Julian later on. Jim did have a conscience, albeit buried in his mind, but it was there. He threw the young deadbeat mum on the bed when he found out she left her baby alone while she went out looking for a good time. He forsook pleasure for morality. Maybe it just hit home - at heart he was an abandoned child, a loner who had no anchor. Young boys need a masculine influence to mold them into men and he never had one.

You can see the life Jim had in front of him as a young father. Watch his wife, mum and pop sitting in front of the telly while he's reading the trades. Boring domestic suburban 9 - 5 life was suffocating him - not to mention his pompous, pretentious stuck-up mother in law and his besties girl friend. He had woven himself a twisted web there and had to get out before it got real ugly. He did try hard to be the prodigal son and be a decent husband/father to Jeanette, who I believe he had real feelings for, but he just couldn't commit. He was a pioneering and daring free spirit who couldn't be caged and contained, which was obvious when he threw his books in the river and took off in search of life and found it tenfold. He was searching for a world in technicolour and wasn't going to find it in grey old 1950's England. As the old saying goes "People born round don't die square". In the sequel he died as he lived.

And Ringo/Mike's advice to Jim on the dodgems. "And for *beep* sake don't pick on anyone in a gang, or you've had it". Too bad he didn't heed his own advice.