Charley Character Analysis

Fear, hope and, ambition is what makes a man. In open range I really identify with Charley and his character. He is a strong main character in open range, he is exmilitary but this doesn't make him to tough. In the the end he still finds love. He has a big sense of justice and what justice really means. He has fears like everyone but close to the end he is able to let go of his fear and his hate and embrace love. Charley is a truly unique character, because unlike most movies where the main character accepts his hate and anger to make him stronger he must let go of it. Which from my own personal opinion is a much harder thing to do. Fear can eventually consume people, but if you have the drive and will to overcome it you can become someone stronger. Charley with the help of Boss, and Sue who he falls in love with is able to overcome his fear. His fear comes from his past in the army and all of the shooting he did. At multiple points in the movie he wakes up in the middle of the dark grabing for his gun because he thinks he sees someone from his past and they have come to kill him. But eventually because of telling his story to Boss and him falling in love with Sue his is able to get rid of his fear. Instead he is able to defend what he believes in, he is able to fight for justice. You can
see this close to the end of the movie where he faces the enemy in the final showdown. He knows what he is doing is right and he faces his fate with no fear at all. Hope can make you do things and act in ways you never thought you could. It can enable you to set your sights higher and look for something better than you have. Charley hopes he can protect his friends and when he fails it makes him rethink everything in his life. But he never gives up his hope, his home that he can be with sue and his hope that he won't let down Boss. He wants something better than what he has. In the final scenes of the movie where everyone starts to help them it fills him with a new hope, he won't die in the fighting. He will be able to marry sue and live happily ever after. Ambition is what drives everyone, the search for what you want and what you need.
Charlie doesn't have any true ambitions but amidst the turmoil, life suddenly takes an unexpected turn for the loner Charley when he meets the beautiful and warm spirited Sue Barlow, a woman who embraces both his heart and his soul. He might have had other ambitions in the past but those were taken away from him by his fear and the wars he fought in. This ambition is what he make him fight for the side of justice instead of leaving thing they way they are. He must do what is right and he must not let anything stop him. His searching and his drive to make things better is what makes him who he
is. I understand what Charley is really searching for. He is looking for something bigger than himself, something that he can fight for and maybe even die for, and that thing is Sue. She is the one who enables him to become who he is really meant to be. She is the one who changes the cold, hard warrior back into a man. She helps him to live again and to be free from his past. I can relate to his deep sense of justice because it is something I also feel. His feelings of wrong doings is what helps him to do what his right.