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Sarah asked this question about Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1):
Based on the last paragraph of the novel, do you think Eilis happily returned to Tony and she realized she made the right decision? I am trying to make peace with the ending. "She has gone back to Brooklyn...these words would come to mean less and less to the man who heard them and would come to mean more and more to herself."
Vesna I think, she loves her life in Brooklyn. She is a migrant, she loves her hometown, she loves that she is being attached and someone there, even more s…moreI think, she loves her life in Brooklyn. She is a migrant, she loves her hometown, she loves that she is being attached and someone there, even more so when she comes back from America. I have a migrant background myself (short version: born in former YU, came as a child to Germany, loved my life there but felt torn, went back to home when 24 for 6 months and realized, I have become too much German so went back there) and you never loose this feeling that you cannot have both worlds and that you have to chose the one that is better for you. But when you visit, you really get very fast this feeling, that the other life is a fantasy. So, she chose to be Brooklyn Eilis instead of Enniscorthy Eilis and Tony maybe just came with that package, but still he was very good for her.(less)
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