Originally Posted by
Truthlover
I wonder if Isabel Archer could have survived her marriage to Gilbert Osmond through the kind of therapy used in Co-Dependents Anonymous, specifically through "emotional detachment." ... At the end of the novel, Isabel Archer went back to Rome. If I were to continue the story, I would have her attain emotional detachment and literally enjoy life more than most of us because of her acquitted ability to transcend not only Gilbert, but herself (especially her insistent search for independence).