Elshaddai post 2

Landon chooses as he did because of, as the visitor says, "the greed of curiosity". He thinks that, because he has seen so much in his lifetime, there isn't much that would surprise him. He also decides to stay and see what the stuff he's carried really is. It wasn't a wise decision. Landon's choice puts him into shock and causes the deterioration of his health and, eventually, death. I think he might already have been confused with Jekyll's directions and wishes, which could have had a bit of an effect with his decision to see what the whole story is about, but it didn't seem as if he is being very conscious of the consequences his judgments of watching the visitor take the drink have at the moment.