He mentioned rosebud three times... The only three times he didnt get what he wanted. After being torn from his mother, he had the original rosebud moment. He swore he would be in control of his actions from then on, and was always in control of what happened from then on, even in the world. Thus the newspaper. Even when blackmailed by the boss he made his own choice, and when be finished Leland's article, it was his own free will. Then, when Susan left him it was, as susan mentioned, the first thing she had done that he hadn't planned. He went in a frenzy and uttered rosebud, because he had failed to follow his promise to be in control. Finally, when death took him he wasn't ready to die, and uttered rosebud again. Like his palace Xanadu, his life was always being built, (promises, declaration of principles) but never finished. And then it ended. His story is of a man who always needed to be in control.
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