YMMV / The Sunset Limited

• Alternative Character Interpretation: White could have hanged himself, taken a whole bottle of sleeping pills or slashed his wrists at home in a bathtub and avoided the whole issue. He may have chosen a method which included the possibility of rescue in order to test his own faith in his decision. He gave the world (through Black) one last chance to give a compelling argument to dissuade him. Since Black didn't have one, White knew his desire for death was genuine.
• Narm Charm: In his Despair Speech at the end, White says, "I am a professor of darkness. The night in day's clothing." This sounds like the sort of thing a cartoonish Card-Carrying Villain would say, but Tommy Lee Jones delivers it with such conviction that it actually works.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: As befits a work by Cormac McCarthy. White remains so driven to see the world as a hellhole from which there is only one escape throughout the whole play that he brutally annihilates Black's own convictions, piece by piece, and then leaves to kill himself and for Black to Rage Against the Heavens in despair at his own futility. This is the kind of play that you only want to see once.

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