Whilst I was very sad to hear about Lucy’s father – it hasn’t really changed my mind about Kenton.
Kenton was planning to “redeem” himself and “become the man he always dreamed of being” not through hard work, struggle and effort and actually changing his cavalier, reckless behaviour but through making use of money he hoped to obtain from a commercial deal which he was not part of (he was not part of negotiations) concerning an asset to which he had not added any value.
It’s not like work-related stress where “the demands of work exceed your ability to cope”. And it’s not like he’s an entrepreneur who’s taken risks or made sacrifices for the sake of an innovative idea. No, Kenton’s current state has come about purely through taking a gamble on getting a hand out. That gamble didn’t pay off and instead it has sparked off deep-seated, long-standing resentment of David who he sees as the cause of his grievances.
Someone like Kenton have made a good go at dissipating his share of the sale of Brookfield, anyway, I reckon. After buying The Bull and helping Fallon he would have been living high on the hog with his millions – like Viv Nicholson the “spend, spend, spend” pools winner.