Semi-unrelated but I think all these reasons make Jimmy’s death just so beautiful in Mouthwashing
It’s Jimmy’s final selfish action and way to avoid the consequences of what he’s done while he’s still convinced it’s a good thing.
He thinks he’s making a Nobel sacrifice, that’s he’s doing everything for the greater good when in reality he’s just making life worse without thinking, because what’s going to happen to curly when he wakes up in 20 years and nobody find him? Curly is going to starve to death slowly and painfully.
I think subconsciously he knows this (I fully believe Jimmy is operating on a subconscious vs conscious), but still chooses to do it anyway because
1. Doesn’t want to prove anyone else right, he was the one who insisted on keeping curly alive and if he were to let him die that just admit it all be for nothing.
2. What happens if they do find Jimmy? How is he going to answer the question of what happened on the Tuplar? Sure he can lie and claim it was all just freak accident one after another, and that he killed swansea in self defense, but Jimmy doesn’t think that far ahead enough to plan out a lie and story, he’s just knows he indirectly killed everyone (and directly killed swansea).
Let’s propose a hypothetical and say Jimmy considered keeping Swansea alive and letting him enter the cryopod, Jimmy knows that Swansea hates him and won’t hesitate to say the truth when asked. That’s why Jimmy couldnt let Swansea be the one in the cryopod, he’s had to have it be the silent person who couldn’t answer and say the horrors that went down on the ship
(Also curly is Jimmy’s best friend so obviously he choose him over swansea but again subconscious vs conscious yk)
throught out the entire game he act without thinking and assuming it would magically all fall into place for him, and look what happened. That line of (not) thinking has gotten everyone on the ship killed.
It also can be seen as a last attempt at control. It’s the only thing he can truly influence or do in this situation. We all know Jimmy yearns to control every situation, so he’s most likely trying to take it in the only way possible.
Also the fact that whatever “Mercy” he gives to curly is always in sharp contrast to what he did to Swansea. Jimmy was most likely going to kill himself no matter what, but if Swansea killed him then he wouldn’t be remembered as someone great, he would be remembered as who he actually was.
The fact that in the end he can’t even look Curly in the eye and walks away. Realistically it’s most likely out of a ‘I don’t want to kill myself infront of my best friend’ situation, but from an analysis POV I feel that can be seen as Jimmy choosing to look away from the consequences of his actions one final time.
Sorry for rambling under your ramble post
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