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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Does it stillcount as a midlife crisis if it's because you gave cancer and feel like you're gonna die way earlier than you set your whole life up for? That seems like the age doesn't really matter. It's just a crisis in general. When I think midlife crisis, I think of a crisis that involves everything around you being the same but you just feel different than you did before because you realize you're locked in.

The cancer is just what woke him up to the crisis. Walter is NOT acting the way he does because of cancer, the cancer just gave him an excuse to act out. When he gets the news he's in remission he punches a bathroom hand dryer so hard he bruises his knuckles, since he's losing his excuse to get away from his life. Everything in Walter's life was building up to his desire to become something like "Heisenberg", made clear by his talk to the shrink.