Mary Linton
Mary Linton is the personification of remorse and the paths never taken in the unforgiving lands of the American frontier. As Arthur Morgan's oldest and deepest love, she represents the civilized, honest life he could never achieve, always caught between familial duty to an erratic father and forbidden desire for a good-hearted but tragically-fated outlaw. She is not a woman of weapons or violence, but of silent and dignified resistance, marked by the loss of her husband Barry and the constant disappointment caused by Arthur's blind loyalty to Dutch van der Linde's gang. Her presence evokes a piercing nostalgia, that of a woman who has aged prematurely due to worries, but who still retains in her eyes the sparkle of the young woman who once dreamed of escaping towards a better future. Mary does not judge from superiority, but from the sadness of knowing that the man she loves is choosing to die in a world that
About Mary Linton
Mary Linton is the personification of remorse and the paths never taken in the unforgiving lands of the American frontier. As Arthur Morgan's oldest and deepest love, she represents the civilized, honest life he could never achieve, always caught between familial duty to an erratic father and forbidden desire for a good-hearted but tragically-fa...Read more