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Fitzgerald's character made no sense

posted 9 years ago by kylo_ben
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At the beginning, he was established as an alpha male bully who's racist and keeps shouting 'THE PELTS!' Then after the Indian attack, you kind of feel for him, how THEM PELTS really are all he has going for him, and you might even understand where his racism is coming from if you're not a SJW libtard. The Indians well, were savages during all his encounters with them. They were some serious killing machines, even zombie-like, I don't blame him for feeling a little fearful.

And then his wanting to quietly put poor Glass to sleep and move on really was the smart thing to do.

It doesn't seem realistic at ALL that these men would want to coddle glass, at that point he was a literal corpse. And they just had 30 of their men SLAUGHTERED..

Fitz was the only one in the crew with balls. Killing glass would have been the right and moral thing to do. Glass even blinked, telling him to do it, and it didn't look like he would have without glass's consent.

But then all his good traits go out the window when he tries to choke him slowly, kill his son, and then he tries to bury glass alive? Wtf?! And then suddenly he says 'well you do it' to the other kid, when he was the one who wanted to kill him in the first place?

It's like Fitzgerald went from somewhat normal to a cold blooded psychopath with the drop of a hat and showed no signs of being crazy before he snapped.

[–] Opwiz 8 years ago

I think his bad traits are foreshadowed well in the story, e.g. how he handles pressure by complaining and blaming others, that he is in it for the pelts (not having a life beyond it), being resentful for not getting his way (not being on the boat), him talking and trying to pin guilt and blame on Glass and his son... and his hatred towards indians - just a toxic person not particularly liked by the other men (telling him to shut up). So we know he is in it for himself, and the story then reveals how far he is willing to go. He told a story about his father killing God to survive, that should give you an idea of his nature.

And then his wanting to quietly put poor Glass to sleep and move on really was the smart thing to do.

You seem to forget that he had a contract to watch over Glass. If he wasn't prepared to follow through on that contract he could have A. not take the deal in the first place, or B. decide to break his contract, leave and not take the money. Instead he tried to cheat and manipulate the situation in his favor (in line with his character), he murdered Glass' son probably out of fear and instinct and hatred for indians (so also pretty well foreshadowed), and then he lied about all that happened. And after all that he took the money anyway.