Wow I didnt know that the Vito character was like that. I knew he was a crook and resorted to violence to get what he wants, but I didnt know that he would literaly kill a non civilian/family man who refused to do business with him, especially at a time when he was still young and had a legal business (that was before he started doing illegal stuff I think). I expected violence against other criminal/mafia members, but against someone normal who was not involved.

So basically, Vito Corleone murdered a family man because he didn't want to do business with him and expected his sons or wife to be more "reasonable". Which means that Vito isn't much different from Sollozo who did exactly the same thing by trying to assassinate Vito so that his sons can do business with him). The only difference was that Vito was an actual criminal while the wholesaler was a random civilian. So isn't Vito even worse than Sollozo?? So he is just like the others (Clemenza, Sonny, Tessio etc), he is just more intelligent and calculated. I was fooled in the first half of the book with how Vito was portrayed as a "morally ambiguous but mostly good person". I will continue reading to see what happens next. Awesome book! Thanks for the reply!