Character Relationship Map: Too Much Sun

Characters

• Father Kelly (played by Jim Haynie) — supporting

  A devious priest who manipulates the dying O.M. Rivers into adding a controversial conditional clause to his will, splitting the fortune between his children and the gardener while threatening that th...

• Sonny (played by Eric Idle) — supporting

  O.M.'s gay son who is caught with his lover and confesses to his father, inadvertently triggering his fatal heart attack. He must find a heterosexual partner to reproduce within the deadline to secure...

• Bitsy (played by Andrea Martin) — supporting

  O.M.'s lesbian daughter whose sexuality is already known to her father. She is equally bound by the inheritance clause and must conceive a child through heterosexual intercourse within one year to pre...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Father Kelly → Bitsy (Power Manipulator) — His intervention places a reproductive condition directly on Bitsy's inheritance.

  Father Kelly prompts the clause requiring either Sonny or Bitsy to have a child through heterosexual intercourse within one year.

• Father Kelly → Sonny (Power Manipulator) — He influences the legal condition that determines whether Sonny receives his share.

  Father Kelly is described as a devious priest who prompts the dying father to add the controversial condition affecting Sonny's inheritance.

• Sonny → Bitsy (Family Sibling) — They are siblings who are jointly affected by their father's inheritance condition.

  The plot identifies Sonny and Bitsy as the two grown children of the same father.

Story Analysis

A family inheritance becomes conditional after a gay son's confession triggers a fatal crisis and a priest-backed reproductive requirement.

Plot Progression

1. Secrets Within the Family — The story introduces Sonny and Bitsy as the two grown children of a multimillionaire. Their different sexual orientations establish the central family tension.
2. Confession and Collapse — The father catches Sonny with his lover, forcing Sonny to confess that he is gay. The confession is followed by the father's heart attack.
3. The Priest's Condition — While the father is dying from the heart attack, Father Kelly prompts a controversial change to the will. The fortune is divided among the children and the gardener, but only conditionally.
4. The Inheritance Deadline — Sonny or Bitsy must have a child through heterosexual intercourse within one year. If neither succeeds, the entire fortune goes to the church.