The somber setting

First use of deus ex machina

Dialogue highlights female perspective

Authentic Irish dialect

Bless the family with God's love

Convince Bartley to stay home

Marry the eldest sister

Heal Maurya's mysterious illness

Say a prayer over the remains to bless their dead brother

Create a new flannel out of the scraps

Hide it from their mother and try to verify if the clothes belong to their late brother

Put a curse on Bartley, this way they receive all of their family's inheritance

To travel across the sea to the market; he is the last living man to support his mother and sisters.

He must go to war to protect his family's land

He hates his mother and hopes to escape to a more prominent area in Ireland

He hopes to marry a girl in town

Michael's coffin, if only they could find his body

The new chicken coop

To carry Bartley's body up from the sea

Repair a whole in their decrepit cottage

The cloth was very unique, only their family used it

The specific stitch they used to craft his flannel shirt

Cathleen embroidered Michael's initials on it

Michael identified it

She is fearful, terrified, and cowering at the thought of all the terror the sea has caused her and her family.

She is defiant, cursing the air around her and antagonizing God. She prays for a watery death like all the men in her life.

She is defiant. Maurya sets sail on their remaining curragh in hopes to die at sea.

She is defiant and tired. She spent all of her days praying and worrying and now the sea has taken everything from her; she can finally rest.

All the men (husbands, brothers, sons, fathers, etc.) who never came home from the sea

Irishmen

The women left behind

The horses who led the men to their deaths

Communication

Religion

Region

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