dannieboy20906 says > When she regain her self esteem and self confidence she meets and falls in love with someone else. But by then she has grown fond of the older man and does not want to hurt him.
One of the saddest parts of the movie is when Marian agrees to marry Forrester. I know he helped her recover, he was a good friend and a good man, and he treated her with respect and kindness but I felt he stole her life and her chance to find real love again.
It's ironic that she was worried about what kind of life it would be for him when she's the one that got the short end of the stick. In my opinion, she was the very definition of a trophy wife. She was arm candy and a constant companion but their marriage (if one can call it that since it was presumably never consummated) was lacking love and passion.
She did benefit a great deal. She got out, socialized, and started living again but Forrester could have just as easily done all that for her as a friend and not trap her in a marriage. Naturally, Marian did agree to marry him but it seems she was not unaccustomed to making poor choices.
Montgomery, her slain fiance, was a womanizer who, no doubt, would have continued his philandering ways after they married. He was, after all, seeing another man's wife while with her. She was a beautiful woman who attracted a lot of attention from men yet she picked the wrong men. That spells damaged goods to me. Even her relationship with Ellinger is a mistake. She is a married woman and is carrying on an affair with him. Her marriage may have been what it was but he could have suffered a fate similar to Montgomery; death.
Forrester may know she never loved him but he was carrying on a farce. He didn't let on to his friends and colleagues that he was in a loveless, sexless, dead marriage. He liked having such a prized possession. Having her at his side made him seem potent, virile, young, and confident. He was an important man, the embarrassment of a scandal would have ruined him.
In the end, she ended up right back where she started and heading into a darker place. This time, she starts drinking and is tortured by guilt. He didn't uphold his end of the bargain but did he ever plan to when he proposed that special kind of ‘honest’ marriage?
Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]
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