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/cagewilly 1d ago
I'm sorry, are you saying that Marlo is pure streets and the Barksdale crew are unbridled capitalism?
Maybe fair enough. But if Marlo isn't an unbridled capitalist, then he's just unbridled. He's actually feral. He's taking his friends out to the shed to be put down. He's taking innocent people off the street to be murdered for no reason. Stringer was always going to be a bit murdery. But he really was trying to get out. Avon also wanted to avoid the heat, at least until the end.
Marlo was vicious. He was lucky that he ever had the opportunity to get out. He probably didn't take it. And he's the only one that had a bunch of bodies in the vacants all at once. What did he think would happen? They would find all those bodies with lime and the same nails in the doors... and nobody would notice it's the same MO?