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What happens to the heroes of a literary work when we, the readers, turn over the last page of the book? What ending did the author actually prepare for them, and did we understand his idea correctly? We deal with a psychologist.
What will be the family life of Assol and Gray?
Gray has spent the last five years on his ship and does not think of himself as a captain. If Assol remains to sail with him, a crisis will brew in the team, which he carefully selected and which has become his new family: the woman on the ship changes the entire structure of the command “family”. He will have to choose: either the team and further adventures, or Assol.
Option one: he abandons his captain’s identity and settles on the shore, masters other, more mundane types of realization, builds relationships with his wife. Then everything depends on his maturity and ability to change. And from her ability to communicate with a person of a different culture, a different social level.
Option two: he takes her to the family castle and continues to surf the seas. In this case, he does not lose his identity as a brave captain, but he does not transform, does not grow either. At the same time, the meek Assol is alone again. What she, however, is not used to. In this case, her identity also does not change in any way: her fate is not to live, but to wait forever.
A romantic story about a suffering beautiful girl and a prince conquers the world for more than one century
And lives not only in the minds of young ladies! Working with teenagers, I heard many times different variations on the theme of a ship with scarlet sails: a white Mercedes, a black BMW … Colors and brands change, but in the boys’ heads it is always His dream come true, which will let Her understand what he has achieved. The youthful dream does not extend beyond the limits of Her delight and consent.
But this, not always well realized, choice is in any couple: either the relationship for us is a personal challenge that we accept, and this is fraught with changes in everyone. Or we try to keep the well-known, fighting with a partner for the usual idea of self and life.
How would Assol’s life have turned out if Gray hadn’t shown up?
I’m afraid that the guys in the fishing village and town would not fall into the field of her attention. After all, they do not have scarlet sails. The storyteller, who met her in childhood, inspired that she was special and that a magical fate awaited her, in fact, did her a disservice.
For many years, Assol moved more and more away from reality into fantasy. Living in isolation does not develop social skills, does not allow you to consider and study the world around.
Therefore, it would probably be difficult for her to agree that a guy from a neighboring village could be a good match for her: without a ship, castle and stormy experience, but kind, hardworking and ready to build a life together. Assol is too accustomed to hope and wait.