It takes him out of the realm of obscurity and into the foreground of the story, giving him a direct voice, and unknowingly assigning him control of the narrative. He quickly rejoins the other two men as Mills holds Doe at gunpoint; sobbing, furious, and destroyed.
Fincher cuts to a flicker of something bright white—a one-frame shot that passes by so quickly, theater audiences in would have been sure to almost miss it. Mills shoots. Doe included them both in his plan because the man admitted he was paying for sex, even though he was married. Unlike most of the other murders, the pride scene gives the victim a choice between disfigurement or death. The pride scene is slightly different than the rest of them, because Doe gives the woman a chance to choose her own fate.
After cutting off her nose, he gives her the option to live as a permanently disfigured model or take her own life. She chooses the sleeping pills, which means she refused to give up her vanity. She would rather die than live with a disfigured face.
In a way, she proves she is guilty of pride the same way Mills ultimately proves he is guilty of wrath. They both have a choice in the end and they both give into their sins.
Although John Doe hates the seven deadly sins, he represents one himself: Envy. As referenced by the title of the film, Doe is obsessed with the seven deadly sins: Lust, which involves an intense desire for something.
Gluttony, which involves excess eating or drinking. Greed, which involves excessive acquisitiveness. Sloth, which involves laziness. Wrath, which involves vengeful anger. Envy, which involves resentment of others. And pride, which involves having inordinate self-esteem.
John Doe himself represents envy, which is why he plans on Mills shooting him at the end of the film. He explains that is his sin, and like the rest of his victims, he believes he deserves to be punished for it. Toward the end of the film, only five of the seven deadly sins have been revealed. However, once Mills discovers Doe has murdered his wife, he becomes wrath. Somerset tries to convince him not to murder Doe, because that would be giving him exactly what he wants.
But Mills takes the shot. He becomes wrath. The choice was to either call for help and be disfigured or to consume the sleeping pills and commit suicide. The woman gave up her pride and decided to call for help and get her face disfigured. John cut her nose, cut her face, and killed her anyway.
What is John Doe? Its anyone, maybe no one, but John Doe in this story was really someone. He was a ghost to the system. His home was filled with weird shit. He had a room full of journals full of texts that may not make sense to an average person. We see a glimpse of his journaling in the opening credits of the movie. We also see him chipping off his fingertips with a blade. He had no employment records, and his bank account was only a few years old.
The only thing they could figure out was that he was highly educated, independently wealthy, and absolutely crazy. John Doe was disgusted by the sins people committed in their lives and thought he was serving God by punishing the sinful.
He was patient, highly organised, and always miles ahead of the police department. Despite everything, John lacked a regular life, and he became envious of Detective Mills for having one. After taking Mills and Somerset in the middle of nowhere, Somerset receives a parcel for Mills. On opening the box, Somerset realises that John has the upper hand. He asks his backup to fall back and screams to David to drop his weapon.
Wrath is anger. It is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. John emotionally manipulates Mills by telling him that his wife begged to spare her life and that she was carrying their baby in her womb.
Mills had no idea about the baby, and the pain he experiences becomes unbearable for him. As you can see in the whole movie that Mill's has bad temper which represents wrath. The only thing capable of calming him was his wife. You can tell how patient he was around her when the subway train came and other instances. Having her killed in his own case has left him good as dead you know that kind of people who are left with nothing else to live with.
So, eventually he is also punished but with a pain greater than any other sinners. I believe he did. Doe planned this for years. Mills volunteered to join this unit as mentioned in the beginning. Every victim killed indeed committed a deadly sin themselves.
Sloth more than likely died a few days later. I believe Doe lied to Mills and Doe was in fact wrath. Maybe she was envious of her husband. She sacrificed her life and job she loved to relocated to a terrible new home. Because with the theories mentioned above you have one deadly sinner who is still alive, and an innocent victim dead. Which in the car ride there Doe said no one he killed was innocent and he just left from killing Mills wife.
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