Characters
All of you! You think there’s someone just gonna drop money on ya?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain’t people like that. There’s just people like me.
— Jayne · Firefly
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Jayne treats generosity as unbelievable because he measures everyone by his own reluctance to part with useful money. The insistence moves from a claim about other people to a revealing admission about himself. His certainty closes off the possibility that anyone might act from a different set of motives.
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