The line "Hire you as what?" makes me glad that Chuck's story ends the way it does
I started rewatching the series with a friend who has never seen it before (and after rewatching BB with him for the first time-- what a blast).
I don't think it's controversial of me to write that Gilligan intended for Chuck to be a complex but unlikable character. But he nailed it so hard. In the flashback where Jimmy first tells Chuck that he passed the bar and suggests that Chuck might hire him, Chuck gives him this absolutely perplexed look and asks "Hire you as what?" with complete sincerity.
And then he does the same thing when Howard tells him that Jimmy is working at Davis & Main. He asks "working as a what?" and Howard legit stares at him like he's a crazy person. He just does not get it. He's not being passive-aggressive or underhanded or anything, he just DOES NOT understand that his brother is a lawyer. He doesn't respect Jimmy, ok, but he also just cannot compute that anyone else might. He's so convinced that everyone else in the world shares his worldview that it's literally making him unable to operate within reality.
And frankly this depth of self-absorption makes me glad that Chuck dies in a house fire. Jimmy does some pretty bad things but Chuck is evil. What a great character but fuck him forever.