In the movie Irish girl named Eilis moved to United States, to find a better life, and lived in an Irish boarding house with other irish girls and traditionalist houseowner. She started going ot with an Italian guy named Tony and fell in love with him. After deadth of her sister in Ireland she went back home, but before leaving she got maried. In Ireland she fell in love with another man, buti n the end returned to US. She represents Irish culture, where she was used to life in small irish town. She had problems fitting in US culture at first, but after time, and with advice from woman she traveled to Us together, she started to feel more like home. After Eilis went back to Ireland she found that her family and friends tried to keep her from returning to US, for example by having her friends wedding week after she had to leave and her mother already accepted invitation. She also remebers that in small town in Ireland there are no secrets when Miss Kelly finds out about her marrage to Tony. Tony was italian guy was more like usual italians in New York at that time, who liked baseball and had high value for his family, but he was not as expresive about these thing as other intalians as said by Eilis’s employer in shop. While meeting with Tony’s family Eilis finds Tony’s younger brother saying that italian people dont like irish people. Tony shows how important for italian people their family is as he is close with them and plans to start a company with his family. In US people were more open about things and also more concerned about what other people will think about them. This is mostly because in US there are amy different culture together so they are more culturally open, but it also leads to people not liking others in some cases, like with italians and irish.
