A valiant man haunted by forbidden yearnings and innocent, Pennsylvania town, under siege by the forces of corruption, a widening net of scandal and tragedy, threatening both the good and the evil alike. Jason Garrity came from impoverished Irish Catholic roots to the zenith of Yankee prestige power. Answer As A Man tells of the painful price of success and of decency, as Jason is forced by his own principles into a union of lovelessness and deception.  As his marriage to the vein and duplicitous, Patricia becomes the object of scorn and scandal as he worships a woman who can never be his, as he sees cruelty, prevail over kindness and greed over generosity as the curse of his grief, shadowed past lives, and on in his children, Jason is the limit of his trust in God, and in human justice