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I like this and Whitey's ideas... I love having new ideas for how to interpret my favorite books!!!

Again, I'm not convinced in that book that he was truly worried about Roland, but maybe it will appear in my reread of the other books...

Yes but even him saying so may have just been a mind-game.. or perhaps Walter had grown soft in that incarnation as he moved onto reincarnate to a different character?

I can multitask!!!!!!!!!!! :cool:

I'm working on it ;)

Well maybe my opinions of Walter are more of those of Randall Flagg... I didn't think Randall was scared of anything. His arrogance was one of his strengths and faults. He thought he was...

Ooooooooooooooooooooooh..... so

Roland loses Jake, that means he loses it and Walter thinks then he will not be able to finish his journey. Very interesting. I like that idea.

But why was it important to Walter to know what he would give up for the tower? Roland's devotion to the quest truly shows Walter how he will not stop, but why is this information important to...

I kind of thought it was too, just him pushing Roland to see if he was ready to give up the boy. To see if Roland was ready for the palaver between them.

Another thing I don't understand is why...

So you think this was just a joke, Letti?

I still didn't think it would scare Walter since Walter is supposed to be this big bad-ass. I just didn't really picture Walter being scared of much of anything... *shrugs* Maybe my impression of...

So Walter didn't even word himself in truth; Roland's idea of answers isn't what really scares him, it's the consequences if he cannot discourage Roland from the tower... He's scared of what may...

well if that's true I still don't understand. Why would it frighten Walter?

Or maybe Roland's idea of answers is to get to the tower so Walter is scared of Roland reaching the tower? (I don't think that's a spoiler but if I need to I can fix it)

""Gunslinger! How well you fulfill the prophecies of old! Good day and good day and good day!"
(Roland fires three times and misses all three times)
"Woud you kill all your answers so easily,...

No, this was before he dropped Jake, and before they saw the slow mutants. Before they went into the mountain. Before the handcar escapade. Walter was taunting Roland, and at the same time letting...

Page 201 in my copy of the Gunslinger.

"It's not your bullets I fear, Roland. It's your idea of answers that scare me."

Is this in reference to Roland wanting to shoot Walter? Does just the idea that he thinks he can get answers by...

It's still a different thought presented to me than has ever been.

I can totally understand why Roland would be confused about Walter/Marten's identity by book two. By book two he is infected, and starting to go crazy. No wonder he's unsure about the man in black.