I think i would like the green mile (book) more if john coffey didn’t serenely accept his fate and/or the narrator was shattered haunted and suffering for the rest of his magically extended life

it makes me wanna watch the movie. to seebc the narrative is so tragic but i think it reeeeeally lets the narrator off the hook. like he feels BAD about killing an innocent man whohad incredible lifesaving magic powers. but not bad enough to risk his career over it. i would like him to realize afterwards that it washis moral obligation to TRY even if it ruined his life. but instead he’s just kinda bummed and his wife dies at a pretty advanced ageor what if he started thinking about all the other john coffeys he electrocuted. innocent men who deserved better.I’m not saying horror novel protagonists should be morally correct or thatbad people in fiction need to suffer its just that this seems likea blindspot for king he really struggles getting away from Nice White Guy and really NARRATIVELY serve women and pocalso i think its nice when a horror protagonist is shattered and haunted and never the same. its good