[SPOILERS] Arya and the Hound - Why did she walk away?

I've seen a lot of different ideas and interpretations on this scene. A lot of people say that her walking away was taking the ultimate vengeance, since his wounds were so atrocious he would suffer the most until he dies. I'm talking about the show only since I haven't read the books. However, when Arya walked away, I personally took this action to mean that Arya thought there might be a chance the hound would live, but she also wanted him to suffer. I didn't think she wanted the hound to die for a few reasons. One would be the way they bonded a couple of scenes or eps before the Brienne fight, and Arya offering to sew up his wound and learning about his brother. In the scene when she walks away, Arya also offers the hound some water. And Arya sees through his provocations to get her to kill him. I think Arya still resented him and wanted him to suffer but couldn't bring herself to kill him. I also think this is true because at the house of black and white, the waif asks Arya if the hound was still on the list, and she says yes, and the waif sensed that it was a lie, he had been taken off the list before Arya left him (she didn't know if he would live or die). Do you think that there is ambiguity and that Arya was just lying to herself thinking she still hated him when deep down she cared somewhat for the hound? She didn't even realize she was lying to herself either. What do you all think about this scene and why? What are your interpretations?

I also think this is the case because what is so endearing about Arya is that she loved her friends and family so deeply that she was that much more fierce when it came to defending them. Arya's main characteristic for me was that she almost thought in a moral black and white, but not in a bad way. She didn't make excuses for Joffrey and Cersei just because they had the title, and she didn't let the brotherhood guys off the hook just because they said it was for a higher purpose, an innocent is an innocent to her and the higher purpose doesn't excuse the current suffering they would put someone through. So I could see this scene as being ambiguous and her moral code isn't as black and white anymore.

Submitted January 01, 2021 at 06:39PM by 24moonwater https://ift.tt/3pH5EXY