Who is the woman at the very end?
Maybe the protagonist's wife or girlfiend, ok. But is she the same woman we see younger at the beginning? The same woman in the photo? So he had a wife at the time of the Johnson county's war.
Yes. Yes. Maybe.
shareJim's a broken man. Ella was killed & his close friend, JB, was also killed, both of them right in front of him. To find some solace, he goes back to Boston & finds the woman he danced with at graduation. However, judging by his manner when he's with the woman on the boat, he's still very much a broken man who's never recovered from the trauma.
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