This time, she is the smart, worldly, self-assured woman that Georgina once was to her. This scene is an echo of Eilis's own interactions with Georgina on her first trip to America. She helps the younger woman avoid seasickness, and nods reassuringly as they approach immigration. Eilis tells the girl that it is just like home, and goes on to explains all the things she wished she had known as a first-time traveler.
A young Irish woman traveling to America for the first time asks her about Brooklyn, what it is like and how it compares to home. Hornby's scenes follow Eilis's journey back to Brooklyn, and at first, she still withdrawn and mournful. The contract in a film is different, where you're showing so much that you can't do that." Nick Hornby, Tóibín argues, fills the "gaps" that he had left empty, and imagines the novel in a new way. And this means when you come to the end of the novel, you can leave quite a lot to the reader's imagination. In an interview with the Toronto International Film Festival, Tóibín states, "In a novel, you're asking the reader to imagine so much because the reader cannot see, and so the reader is constantly imagining and filling in gaps. There is more than one way to understand the ending, and imagine what comes next, but the film adaption of the novel offers perhaps the most moving interpretation. There is much ambiguity in the ending of this novel, and Colm Tóibín has more than once remarked that that was exactly his intention. But on the other hand, she suggests that the words "She has gone back to Brooklyn" will come to mean "more and more to herself." Though this in itself is not positive, the fact that "She almost smiled at the thought of it" certainly seems to give this thought a hopeful tinge. She spends the final few paragraphs of the novel imagining Jim's hurt when he learns of her deception, her mother's pain in confirming the news, and how she will fade out of his memory. How are we meant to read these final lines? On the one hand, Eilis seems to mourn for what might have been. She almost smiled at the thought of it, then closed her eyes and tried to imagine nothing more.”
And, as the train rolled past Macmine Bridge on its way towards Wexford, Eilis imagined the years ahead, when 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.
“'She has gone back to Brooklyn,' her mother would say.
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