Giselle answers “Based on the last paragraph of the novel,...”

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."

Giselle I think that the last part probably eludes that she ends up having a happy life with Tony BUT i hate how the last few pages she was set on divorcing T…moreI think that the last part probably eludes that she ends up having a happy life with Tony BUT i hate how the last few pages she was set on divorcing Tony and just because her old boss reveals that her secret isn't so secret and realizes her divorce wouldn't be so quietly covered up. Usually when i read a book with a love triangle I feel a sense of conclusion and relief that the character made up their mind but this story didn't. I think in the end the character neither wins nor loses in a way.(less)

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