Let's be honest, it was a fling and nothing more
It wouldn't have worked out when she got off the boat.
shareNo shit! Dead, he was inspiration to live a brave and independent life. If he'd lived, he'd have ended up being the rat bastard who left her flat broke with kids to support.
shareHe would never settle down.
shareNope! And he wouldn't have used condoms, either, even if they were the only form of birth control available at the time.
So yeah, Rose would have been stuck with kids, a husband who wouldn't settle down, and a bit of pocket change to live on.
That is really jumping to conclusions though, isn't it?
Jack didn't seem to be the "rat bastard who left her flat broke with kids to support" kind of a guy.
He does to me. He'd be like "look at my drawings! That's who I fell for. Now you are overweight and old!"
And onto the next adventure.
Pretty much, in the film Jack was very open about living shoestring life of bouncing from odd job to adventure and back again, and he didn't want to stop. He'd undoubtedly had flings before, and undoubtedly bounced away when his previous girls had wanted to get serious or had missed a period, and he probably intended to do the same when the ship landed in New York, as he'd never be able to support a girl with Rose's tastes.
Of course there probably was a time that night, when he thought about giving up his independence and marrying Rose in spite of their differences, and that would have lasted until the first time he took her to the sort of flophouse he was accustomed to staying in.
But I don't remember hearing anything about him leaving previous girlfriends like that.
It is only what you assume had happened...
Yes, I absolutely assumed all that, and I think my assumption is accurate!
Of course none of that would be included in the finished script, because it's not the sort of things that men admit to when they're trying to impress people, and because it wouldn't get the audience to buy the romance. But that's how feckless young men behave, and back then it was socially acceptable for them to just walk away from their illegitimate children.
Rose was kinda pudgy and pale, I’m sure Jack just got with her for the thrill of boinking an aristocrat. He probably made a bet with Fabrizio.
Would Jack stick around with an older, fatter Rose screaming at him to get a boring job to provide for her and the kids, or would he run free on another adventure, looking for a fresher, younger ‘rose’..? I think we know.