Walter White Gangster

The “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” (1962) and the episode off of Breaking Bad (2008-2013) are based on characters who are from the middle-class that are facing falling wages due to the Great Recession and use violence to help them survive. As time passes, they begin to notice that all their hard work isn’t paying off and their belief in the American Dream is challenged. Walter White is a white male character from Breaking Bad that was a chemistry teacher and has come face to face with cancer. He takes place of an immigrant. “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” is about how America that is suppose to be a wonderful, cheerful place, but it created a dark character called the gangster. Both are similar and different from deferent points of views. Walter White was just a regular, middle-class, white man until the tragedy of being diagnosed with cancer changed his destiny. He didn’t choose to become a gangster; he was forced to. As time passes the deeper he gets into the gangster role, he changes into a different person. He plays the role of an immigrant living in the slums in Mexico with his family who he claims he is doing all of this to help protect his family. Unlike “The Gangster as Tragic Hero”, Walter isn’t a …show more content…
He grew up to choose the path to become a gangster. Unlike Walter White, he didn’t have a family, nor the “American Dream.” The essay is about a Gangster becoming his own individual. “The gangster. is primarily a creature of the imagination. The real city… produces only criminals; the imaginary city produces the gangster.” (Muller, The Gangster as Tragic Hero, 2003) The only way for his survival in this world was learning and inhibiting the ways of the streets. He shows the difficulties that people were facing in the modern American society where the old American myths of freedom and individuality were related to the factors of the depression