r/TheWire • u/Confident_Try5464 • 1d ago

I love marlo’s end

I finished the wire 2 days ago and one of my favorite moment was the conclusion of Marlo.

It represents the fact that he can’t be another thing that a hoodmaster, Social advancement is at a standstill, and even with Stanfield's success, he won't feel truly comfortable or accepted in the world of the "big boys," the world of people who exploit all these street dealers. If Stringer had understood that, he wouldn't be dead.

The difference between Marlo and Stringer with Avon is that one does what he does because he comes from the streets and has no choice to survive (at least not at the base, without much financial education, just pure resourcefulness), and the other two have no code of conduct and want to get rich by denying all morality (a symbol of unbridled capitalism). Both have simply forgotten that the floor above is hermetically sealed off to people like them.

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u/Far-Advantage-2770 1d ago

Yeah, it's great. Up until that point you are getting really irritated thinking that psycho is going to get away with everything. Then you realise in the last scene he has the worst punishment of everyone, he's stuck in purgatory fighting over some nonsense forever, and he'll just wind up dead or in jail next year.

And subtle too, if it was Breaking Bad, he would just blown up in a big explosion.

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u/MetalTrek1 20h ago

He was all about his name. And now nobody knows who he is. The guys he confronted were talking about Omar, if I'm correct. For Marlo, this is a fate worse than death.

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u/AdEnvironmental467 19h ago

Even if he went to prison he still realized on his first visit that Avon was always still the king