Vulnerability

Parallel characterisation in Lonesome Dove: Masculinity - “They sat in the room a month and then he burnt it”. Both characters - the barkeep and Call - destroy their whole life in trying to run away from pain and feeling.

Call, in his pursuit to be a good man after his guilt over Maggie, burns down his whole life & sees his entire outfit die. They’re both the same thing - both hurt themselves, hurt others and needlessly destroy something they had built, in an attempt to not feel.

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