Guitar's honor/morals

     The ending to Song of Solomon is a very strange one. Guitar who has wanted nothing more than to kill Milkman for betraying the Seven Days "put his rifle on the ground and stood up". Milkman thinks that Guitar will kill him if he stands up, but Guitar doesn't. Guitar was content to shoot at Milkman before but now that Milkman knows he is here something changes, but what? and why? what part of the act of standing up stops Guitar from killing Milkman where he stands? Perhaps it goes back to Guitars sense of honor and his moral code?

     Guitars moral code is a little hard to understand, he is okay with killing white innocent people and even bombing children. These are incredibly hard things to justify morally but Guitar makes it seem okay and even necessary. it seems that he believes that these people aren't innocent on page 155 Guitar says to Milkman "There are no innocent white people, because every one of them is a potential n-word-killer". I clearly don't agree with this line of reasoning cause it seems like Guitar has the potential to murder an innocent black person, Pilate, which makes him worse than the white people. But, at that point in the story, it is clear that he is already off the deep end as he is trying to kill his best friend over some pile of gold he has to know doesn't exist. It seems like his already extremely questionable moral code has fully broken down into complete a-moral activity by the end of the book and thus I'm not sure we can find the answer in his moral code.

     He does seem to have some sense of honor. This may seem odd because of the generally agreed upon methods of dishonorable fighting he uses, a garrote from behind and shooting an unarmed target from substantial range. Guitar seems to view the Seven Days mission as just and honorable because of how staunchly he defends it and how he will kill over its principles. Guitar believes he is justified in his mission and thus it is this honorable pursuit. The honorable nature of the mission outweighs the dishonor of attacking unarmed white people because they are the enemy. Something changes, Milkman talks to him and knows he is there, first off I don't think that Guitar is used to being treated like a human by his victims. The Seven days crimes are very impersonal and are a lot more like hunts than murders. In the other unknown attacks, he is like a hunter stalking his quarry and finally striking to take them down. I personally don't see hunting as particularly honorable but some people see the tracking, sneaking and shooting to be honorable. When Milkman addresses Guitar its no longer a hunt, Milkman accepts his fate and in that way, there is no honor or gratification from the kill. The fact that Milkman stands up to him man on man is kind of like the last scene of Rocky three where they decide to finish it in this very kind of macho idea of the manly boxing match then freeze frame, fade to black. I think that because Milkman sees Guitar as a man and addresses him as such Guitar sees Milkman as a man and it's no longer a hunt and deserves to be handled differently. 

Idk it doesn't really make perfect sense to me so if someone has a better interpretation I'd love to hear it