Fate is considered to be and individual’s …show more content…
The problem has been left up to the viewer’s imagination. The worst can be assumed by the punishment his daughter has put him through for years with her silence. To relieve himself of this guilt, he attends church every Sunday even though he did not seem to understand the concepts of religion. He wrote to her regularly, but the letters were steadily returned to sender. Similarly, Maggie’s father passed away when she was young and she was unable to mend that hole in her life. Both Frankie and Maggie’s, biological family no longer exists. They replace it with the relationship they …show more content…
Maggie Fitzgerald, whom at first seemed to be an inconvenience, ended up becoming the very reason Frankie Dunn finds love and happiness. Frankie unintentionally relieves his long-bearing guilt by introducing Maggie into a woeful relationship similar to one of a father and his daughter. Although the story bares a distressing conclusion, the tragedy is the beholder of the truth behind their relationship. Maggie’s life had truly been fulfilled by her experience with Frankie. She received a second opportunity to grasp her life and create one with which she was satisfied with. This forces Frankie to decide between his own selfish needs and the best wishes of his newfound