RE: Walter White and Overweening Pride: Breaking Bad Character Analysis
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Excellent analysis, @agmoore! 👍
I really enjoyed watching the series. At the beginning, because I was very impressed by Walter's drive.
Of course I disliked what he did, but his courage compensated a bit for that.
I noticed his pride getting stronger and stronger too, and that made me all the more curious to see what would happen next. He was losing sight of his actual goal more and more. And as we all know, extreme pride comes before a fall. He was bound to pay his price, sooner or later.
So it was a pleasure to wait for that until the end of the series. :-D
However, I then felt no pleasure in seeing how happy he was when he went to meet his final judge. I didn't want him to have this happyness.
It's hard to say when he made the turn and could never go back. Was it when he killed the man in his basement? Was it when he agreed to cook for Fring? The writers of this show are so brilliant. You related to the existential struggle of this drug dealer, and I did too. That's amazing. Of course at some point, as you say, he went beyond where we could relate.
Thanks very much for reading. I was sure nobody would read this long piece. Part of my formal training is in literary analysis... something I could never use in the job market😂, but it's always a part of me and you can see it here in this piece. Great fun for me. I'm very surprised and gratified that it is also interesting to other people.
Hope you are having a great summer my friend.