It'due south incredibly telling that Kim cries only Jimmy doesn't when both characters read Chuck's alphabetic character in Meliorate Telephone call Saulflavour four. From the very showtime,Ameliorate Call Saul makes no hush-hush of the tension between the McGill brothers. TheBreaking Bad spin-off starts with Jimmy earnestly helping older brother Chuck through a psychosomatic electricity allergy, just overAmend Call Saul's kickoff three seasons, the McGill feud escalates, with Jimmy and Chuck both airing decades of unspoken grievances.

The battle culminates inImprove Telephone call Saul flavour 3. Chuck continues to belittle and undermine his younger brother at every plough, holding back his legal career because he deems Jimmy unworthy. Chuck finally gets his opportunity in "Chicanery," every bit Jimmy faces the Bar Association on charges of tampering with official documents. To avoid a harsher sentence, however, Jimmy brutally exposes his blood brother'due south unfounded fear of electricity, successfully discrediting Chuck every bit a witness. With his career in tatters and no small amount of embarrassment, Chuck enters a downwardly spiral before ultimately taking his ain life. WhenAmend Call Saul flavour 4 begins, Jimmy receives a alphabetic character as part of his brother's will. Written years prior, Chuck expresses pride in Jimmy, and assures him they'll e'er be brothers.

Jimmy and Kim's respective reactions occupy completely different ends of the emotional scale, but Jimmy's unmoved response is easier to explain. While the letter is certainly touching from an outside perspective, information technology rings hollow in light of more contempo events. Chuck might've been proud of his brotherthen, but his terminal words to Jimmy were "you've never mattered all that much to me." This stinging farewell supersedes whatever niceties might've been written in Chuck's posthumous letter. Furthermore, the letter is laden with thinly-veiled insults that Jimmy notices, but Kim seems to miss. Chuck writes how their mother loved Jimmy more than than anything - a sly jab for beingness the "favorite son" - and Chuck describes beingness proud of Jimmy for working in HHM's mail room. As subsequently became evident, Chuck felt the mail room was where Jimmy belonged, and resented his attempts to become a lawyer. If Jimmy had landed a job with more money and status instead of sorting his brother's mail, would Chuck accept felt so "proud?"

Jimmy's common cold reaction while reading out Chuck's letter is also a vital footstep in his gradual Saul Goodman transformation. Even at present inImprove Call Saul, Jimmy refuses to properly acknowledge his brother's expiry, or consider that his deportment might've pushed Chuck to suicide. The only way Jimmy can avoid the emotional fallout of Chuck's expiry is past having no feelings on the topic whatsoever, which explains his callous letter reaction.

More intriguing is how Kim responds while Jimmy reads the letter of the alphabet aloud. Condign increasing tearful with each line, Kim somewhen has to leave the room. Most people would go high-strung up hearing the words of a recently deceased friend, especially when they're singing the praises of a loved one, but Kim's reaction is still surprisingly strong, specially equally Rhea Seehorn's graphic symbol doesn't typically wearable her heart on her sleeve. Unlike Jimmy, Kim doesn't see between the lines of the letter of the alphabet. She takes the words at face value - a heartfelt tribute from blood brother to blood brother. She doesn't know how badly their last conversation went, and doesn't register the condescending tone beneath the surface of Chuck's prose. Kim has a more "normal" reaction, taking the letter as a compliment, and this is evidenced in the following episode when she suggests Jimmy get counselling, noting his coldness.

Simply Kim is still more affected by Chuck'due south words than the average person would exist, and this could be due to her troubled childhood. Through flashbacks,Ameliorate Call Saul revealed the Wexler family lived in constant poverty, and Kim's mother was fell and uncaring. Hearing how deeply Jimmy's brother loved him perhaps struck a nerve that reminded Kim of the family unit connection she never experienced.

More than anything, Jimmy and Kim'southward contrasting reactions to Chuck's letter highlight how different the two characters were inBetter Call Saul season 4. Jimmy'southward self-destructive path towards Saul Goodman was accelerating, while Kim was at her legitimate, career-focused nadir. Since and then, Kim has followed Jimmy down a path of danger and illegality, and is arguably even worse than Saul Goodman when Better Call Saul flavour 5 ends. It would exist interesting to come across how the current Kim would react to Chuck's letter of the alphabet. Would she even so take the words to heart? Or would the new Kim prefer Jimmy's more than cynical approach and see the letter as the dorsum-handed compliment information technology is.

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