The man doesn't have much longer to live and he isn't enjoying any sort of break. He's done everything from making a meth addict his partner to killing men just to keep his family accounted for. It sounds absolutely exhausting.

I think the only sort of enjoyment Walt is getting is knowing he is straying further away from being morally accountable since he is now terminally ill.He and Jesse arent so different after all,both are not in control of their lives.Their families have certain expectations of them and wont listen to their opinons nor will they give them choices.
I think Jesse's issues go beyond drugs,since his brother is following in his footsteps it must have something to do with family dynamics also.

I don't think he enjoys all of the break. He didn't like having to kill Krazy 8 and I don't think he necessarily cares for the stress that has come along with his choices. He was way too worked up over hearing the police siren coming up behind him when he was on the highway.

On the other hand, I think he loved blowing up the punk-ass lawyer's car!

I think his problem is that he takes everything too seriously. If he relaxes, not only will he enjoy his "new" life, he'll probably even enjoy being "just a chemistry teacher" again.

I think Walt is enjoying it to the extent that it's possible to enjoy dissolving bodies in acid, strangling drug dealers to death with bike locks, and putting up with a neurotic junkie of a partner whose paranoia could land you in jail at a moment's notice. Clearly this isn't a month in the Bahamas. But for a man like Walter, who has clearly led a quiet and unassuming life, I think this break is exactly what he "needed".

He's dying of lung cancer, despite never doing anything as dangerous as smoking cigarettes. His relationship with his wife was falling apart; their sex life was nonexistent. Walter is a man who's dying, but to Walt, what is he actually losing? It isn't hard to imagine that he sees this diagnosis as a chance to escape from a life that he can't be all too thrilled with. And he now has the excuse to do all the things that danced around at the edge of his conscience all his life. He tries pot. He quits a job that he hates. He takes on a criminal lifestyle, simply because its the easiest and fastest way to get the money that his family needs. He beats up a bully that pokes fun at his handicapped son. He finds a loud, authoritarian voice inside of himself that he seems to only be able to muster up when speaking to Jesse. He comes home after his first day of cooking meth and fleeing from drug dealers and makes passionate love to his wife for the first time in... weeks? Months?

I wouldn't say that Walter is enjoying his break. It is creating whole new problems to go along with his old ones. But I would say that he definitely likes the new Walter, and is probably feeling like a real man for the first time in god knows how long.

I wouldn't call it enjoying it but I do believe it's serving him well as a release from all he's feeling.

Or maybe all he's not allowing himself to feel.

The actions of his break are so dramatic they demand strong emotions so they make him feel something which seems to be a release he desperately needs.

Enjoying It?

I would have to say it's not quite enjoyment, but he has moments of clarity where he doesn't fear any reprisal. But he is always so high strung enough to think it will all come crashing down at any moment. He is just trying to do the right thing no matter how twisted his rationale is in doing so.

I don't believe enjoy is the right word, but I do think he is getting some satisfaction. Life is short and when you realize that it is going to be a heck of alot shorter you take more risks. Walt is doing things, excluding the meth, that most of us wish we could do.

It's not the break itself he's enjoying, but the freedom to open a can on the unfair things he sees in life. (the spoiled atty who needed the bluetooth shoved up his, well, you know) Haven't we all wanted to smack the #$% out of that guy at the bank?

The only thing Walt enjoys in the ability to go into a rage against all the Idiotic people in the world. Walt seems to black out everytime more bad news is delivered.

To some extent I think he is! He has always played it safe and by the rules. In episode One: I think he thoroughly enjoyed taking the bully in the clothing shop to his knees. I sure did.

In episode two: I think he enjoyed telling Skylar to crawl down out of his a$$. I know I have that one memorized and ready to use on my husband next time it's appropriate; however, my husband liked that scene too! :)

He said he thought he enjoyed smoking Pot.

In episode four, he definitely got off on putting the windshield washer on the car battery and lettting it burn.