Mike answers “who was the dark figure at the end of the...”

punchie asked this question about The Long Walk:

who was the dark figure at the end of the book!?!?!?!?!? =[]= was it suppose to be some kind of symbolic? like death?! or was it Jane!?!? like whaaaaat?!?!

Mike Frankly, I think the most likely answer is that he was simply hallucinating. There is a similar passage in The Navigator of New York where a man who h…moreFrankly, I think the most likely answer is that he was simply hallucinating. There is a similar passage in The Navigator of New York where a man who has been walking past the point of exhaustion hallucinates about a figure walking beside him.
That probably isn't the most satisfactory answer from a literary point of view, but it seems most likely to me.(less)

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