Walter Whites Career Was a Morality Play in Reverse The article, “The best antihero dramas aren’t vicarious thrill rides. They’re morality plays in reverse,” by Tod VanDerWerff successfully documents the necessary qualities for an antihero drama through numerous examples of antihero television series. Breaking Bad is an example of an antihero drama that follows the correct steps VanDerWerff outlines in his article. The show compliments VanDerWerff’s argument and strengthens the claim that good antihero dramas typically follow the style of a morality play in reverse. The show Breaking Bad follows a serial narrative mode since viewers must watch every episode in order to understand what is occurring. The show falls into multiple different categories …show more content…
Morally speaking, the drug deal would not be the ideal choice because he would miss out on an important family memory to participate in a serious crime. If he decides to go to the hospital, he will miss out on millions of dollars that could help his family live a comfortable life forever. He decides to make the deal and misses the birth, which causes him to grow even more distant from his wife, son and new born daughter. Later on, in the same episode, after Walt left Jessie’s house to give him his share of the money, he went out to the bar and happened to sit next to Donald, the father of Jessie’s girlfriend Jane. Jane was living next to Jessie in a duplex and soon began dating. Jane was living there so she could get clean, and Jessie was at the time still heavy user of meth, marijuana and heroin. After Walt left the bar, he returned to Jessies house to talk to him. What he finds and does is ethically horrific. When he returned, he found Jessie and Jane both passed out in bed extremely high and incoherent off drugs. Jane then suddenly starts choking on her own vomit and Walter watches it happen and doesn’t do anything to save her. He could have either saved her and potentially lost Jessie or let her die in