I'm sorry, but Eilis was a hoe

This whole development took me by surprise and seemed a bit inconsistent with her character. It was clear quite early that well-intended friends were setting her up and it would have been such an easy thing to simply say she'd gotten engaged (and still kept the marriage a secret). She had been somewhat pressured into the marriage by her insecure fiance and maybe it hadn't all sunk in yet. Looking outside the characters you could say that up to that point everything had gone so smoothly that in cinematic terms there wasn't much of a drama going on and the writers (following the original novel) needed some kind of conflict to give it some kind of spark.

No, she just realized how much she loved Tony once and for all. She couldn't be tied down by her mom like her sister Rose was, and it eventually killed her. I think she was infatuated with Jim for awhile, but she never slept with him and therefore she wasn't a "hoe".

There's nothing to be sorry about, Eilis was a hoe. She married Tony, returned to Ireland, didn't tell anybody about the marriage and started dating a well-off man- which wasn't too soon after the death of her sister. When the deception was discovered, she took the next boat back to Brooklyn. Ellis was selfish, narcissistic, devious, and not very bright. Women like that are called hoes.

She wasn't a sympathetic character by any means. For me, the movie would have been stronger if she had not married Tony - maybe not even said "I Love you" - that would have made the romance build a little more.

However, once she married him and then went off to have a fling with another guy - made me really dislike her character. Who has sympathy for someone like that? If she was so uncertain - don't marry him! Or maybe the director and screenwriter had some sort of other idea in their heads and maybe it just didn't get communicated on screen the best way...I don't know.

For me, there wasn't really a dilemma, and I found myself loosing interest after she went back to Ireland. And as others said - why not just tell people??

Anyone defending her really seems strange to me. Especially people who rationalize she didn't cheat - she had an emotional affair.

Anyways, it felt rushed. Liked many, many, many aspects of the movie - but her character really turned me off.

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I fail to see what a garden tool has to do with it.

Eilis was no ho, but you certainly are a tool.

And Tony only wanted to marry her at that point, because she was going back to Ireland. If Rose hadn'd died and Eilis didn't have to go back at that point, he might've asked her much later to get married, or perhaps they wouldn't have gotten married at all.