Devil Anse and Randall McCoy outlived it by 30+ years, but they had to watch their Sons and Daughters get killed because of their hate.
Devil Anse took to religion just before he died.
Sort of a man made hell on earth. What could be worse than to watch child after child killed? The bible verse, “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord” kept popping in my head. I got to thinking that vengeance is the Lord’s work since He can handle it and knows what is fair and just. At the end, I saw two broken, miserable, demented old men with nothing left... like the hate had consumed all of their humanity.
Yep, pure hatred. It hollows out a soul. It ultimately takes from the holder everything that they hold dear.
I think Johnse should have taken Roseanna and left. I couldn’t help but think him a coward after the scene where it was clear he was choosing family over his kid’s mother.
I thought it remarkable that Randall McKoy lost more of his kids than Anderson Hatfield and that Hatfield had numerous kids even when he was much older.