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."
Hussain How is Eilis different from her sister Rose? Why do you think Rose encouraged Eilis to go to America?
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Josephine Briggs There are no jobs in a southern Ireland town. There are so many jobs of different kinds. There is so much going on in America. Rose was competent, out ...more
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Josephine Briggs Tony really loved Eilis. Jim, before Eilis moved to America and came back to be with her mother, he treated her very rudely. Then, he felt she had cha ...more
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