The Mr. Green and Martha storyline - spoilers

I totally agree, she's just obnoxious.

I found Mr. Green very sympathetic and likable. He is lonely and his wife is dying. I felt bad for him. And I totally understand why he left the funeral. His wife was disrespected even while she was living and continued to be in death.

Yes, she is a despicable character. Shelley Duvall does a great job making her totally believable as absolutely selfish.

Mr. Green is a sympathetic character, I think. Certainly he goes a little overboard telling everyone he meets about his sick wife, but he's a lonely old man whose life's one constant is hanging in the balance, so it's understandable he would reach out to people for sympathy. Perhaps if his niece weren't such a monster and expressed any love or concern for him and her aunt he wouldn't need to seek comfort from everyone else he meets.

Valentino55, I'm 10 years too late, but I agree that Shelley Duvall's character is contemptible. I do not, however, think Mr. Green is anything less than likeable. There is nothing wrong with him talking lovingly about his dying wife to anyone who will listen. He represents an earlier, kindlier generation that was very much on its way out by 1975. I also disagree that Barnett was a loathsome character. Rather, he was one of the more sympathetic ones. He had contempt for the phony, bloodsucking culture that Nashville and the country music scene spawned. It seemed that his frustration was rooted in good because he just wanted to protect his wife's pride and health. It was also a departure from the typical roles Allen Garfield played and he played it convincingly.