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This. Is such a DAMN good answer. I'm going to think about this for the next few weeks and not sleep because of it. Faith, generally that fuels people to keep going, to believe in something to its very last vestiges. But faith misplaced is a life misplaced, and there's been a lot of it. thank you for this response. it's such a intriguing brain thought, i feel.
Just for somethin' I'm thinking about, whadd'ya think every gang member's biggest flaw is? Sometimes, it's not so obvious, sometimes it's obvious. Or maybe, it's obvious, but it's a flaw that's framed as a positive trait??
I think it was faith.
I think the fact that the gang kept believing in him for as long as they did, I mean Tilly and Grimshaw kept belief almost up to the end, which kept them from facing the reality that he was unfit to lead.
All of them seem to have moments of doubts, Bill has in chapter one, Hosea has in chapter two (telling Abigail to pack and 'be ready'), but they don't really act on it, there is still the small hope that... Maybe it will work it.
I think if they had accepted that Dutch was not fit to rule and let Hosea or Lenny and Sean take over (as Hosea had been preparing them for), then I think they would have had a higher chance at surviving.
Dutch keeps framing faith as the thing that will save them, but I think it was what made them fall.