![]() Part of our love and respect for Isabel is her sense of personal responsibility – it’s foolishly noble, ridiculously stubborn, and just plain stupid, perhaps, but it also shows that she sticks to her guns. However, the grimly beautiful thing about this ending is that it simply couldn’t go any other way. ![]() This is one of those "Why, for the love of God, why?" moments that haunts literature. After an electrifying, truly rousing kiss, delivered by the one and only Caspar Goodwood – representing her last chance for escape from her dreadful marriage to Osmond, and a final bid for happiness – Isabel makes the conscious choice to return to Rome and to Osmond. Isabel, who was never exactly the most predictable heroine to begin with, throws us one last curveball. ![]() ![]() Whew – if this isn’t intense, we don’t know what is. ![]()
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