# Romance and Marriage in Mary, Mary

> Theme guide for Mary, Mary by James Stephens.

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.

## Where it surfaces

- [XXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mary_mary_se/chapters/xxviii): The policeman's twisted view of romance as possession and his struggle with the conventional path of marriage.

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