# What Romance and Marriage means in Mary, Mary

> Marriage is portrayed as both a remote fairy-tale adventure—with a lord in golden armor—and a mundane reality, as Mary observes ordinary couples and grapples with the idea that romance can persist even in dreary lives, while also facing the policeman's predatory interest.

## Explanation

Marriage is portrayed as both a remote fairy-tale adventure—with a lord in golden armor—and a mundane reality, as Mary observes ordinary couples and grapples with the idea that romance can persist even in dreary lives, while also facing the policeman's predatory interest.

The policeman's twisted view of romance as possession and his struggle with the conventional path of marriage.

Romance and Marriage is one of the patterns Mary, Mary by James Stephens returns to. The chapter notes above are from this edition’s companions — open those chapters to see how the book stages the idea rather than treating the theme as a slogan.

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