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It has Black Belle, and that whole encounter is pretty much a riot from start to finish. None of these “noblest of men” fits the bill, so it’s a delightfully snarky title.īut then you have “and a woman”. There’s plenty of humor to it too, from dynamiting pigshit onward. So Levin literally just ends up making crap up and furthering the myth. The Grant/Calloway encounter is an absolute clusterfuck. None of their duels end up being something fit for a story. None of Arthur’s encounters produce some iconic High Noon gunfight. Pretty much none of the men are who their legend says. And it’s amazing that this woman who’s known him for such a short time can just get him so profoundly, and that she has such an effect on him.Īs for the gunslingers, it’s fun just because it tackles the idea of mythologizing the old West as it’s happening. Open validations of Arthur in Chapter 6 aren’t all that common: I think only Calderon, Rains Fall, and Sadie fairly directly tell him that he’s a good person and they believe in him. “Helping people makes you happy” is about as direct a statement of the inner Arthur Morgan as you can get.
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Not in Dutch van der Linde, not even in his own future, but in the idea that the things he does, the love that he chooses to give, will have meaning, and that he’s capable of far more than robbery and killing. This leads to that truly beautiful conversation at Emerald Station where he’s scared and tired and vulnerable, and she manages to give him some faith. He admits he’s an outlaw to her, and she still keeps encouraging and believing in him without dismissing his regrets. He sees her helping street kids, just like he used to be. And especially with Calderon, this becomes something really profound. So he’s forced to confront the idea that having seen all this awful shit, all this despair, it’s still possible to want to help and that it’s not weak to do so. He really can’t bring himself to see them as silly or naive do-gooders. Denis slums, and interact with them daily. He sees that they live among the poor of the St. They both manage to appeal to the hefty streak of kindness and generosity in Arthur, and both of them have the attitude of “I know you have good in you, I won’t believe you’re lost to evil.” They help show him that it’s not a matter of either/or moral purity or corruption, that you can still do meaningful things. They don’t focus on religious doctrine, they focus on good works and charity and humanitarianism. But both Dorkins and Calderon are well written characters. Arthur likes to grumble about religion-when you’ve got Dutch van der Linde establishing himself as your god and messiah to worship, he’s sure not going to stand for rivals-and how terrible he is. Probably the “Help a Brother Out” (Brother Dorkins/Sister Calderon) strand, and the “The Noblest Of Men, And A Woman” (gunslingers) strand.ĭorkins/Calderon is deeply meaningful.