Sally: tragic character

Watching Practical Magic (again) and I got into some deep thinking:

These two sisters save each other's lives in this film. We know how Sally saves Gilly at the end. But look: Gilly and Sally's mother died of a broken heart when their father succumbed to the curse. She left Sally with a major fear of falling in love and when she actually does her husband dies (again the freakin curse). Sally breaks down and begs her aunts for a resurrection spell, stays in bed all day and conjures her sister to come to her.
Sally, I believe was at the brink of dying from a broken heart. This is the woman who as a girl was so terrified of love that she makes a true love spell, amours veritas, inventing a man that doesn't exist so that she'll never fall in love. Her sister drives all night to see her and she comforts her as only a sister could. She puts perspective back into her sister and gives her the support and push she needs to continue living.

Even the letter that Sally writes to Gillian is full of despair and hurt; she truly feels she and her family of women aren't meant to love and it eats her up inside, "I don't want to believe it but...there is no man, Gilly...only that moon" Blood on the moon equals trouble and misery and that is what Sally thinks men do in her family and at that point in the film she is right. Sally really is a tormented character. Gilly might have gotten abused by her boyfriend and eventually possessed but Sally suffers in a way Gillian never does.