Walter White's House Of Cards

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From the beginning of the first season, we are feeling sympathies with Walter’s trouble. Walter White started off his character as a simple man who loves teaching Chemistry and working part time in a car wash to meet his family’s needs. Unlike Frank, he does not start as an anti-hero; rather young students humiliated him in his class. In House of Cards, Frank character was constructed as a respected congressman in his community and who has power, money. Thus, we can argue Walter is a hero who turns into villain who becomes a manufacturer of illegal drugs. Walter White, just as he turns fifty, he learns that he has a lung cancer. So, he doesn’t want to leave his family with debts and he decided to cook drugs with Jesse Pinkman, a various drug