As Unresolved as our story, as Timeless as Adam and Eve

I'm not saying this interpretation was the intent of the creators of this story, but this Biblical/moral analogy is why I think this story had such a fundamental and disturbing appeal to me.

Stealing an identity, a creative right, has been a major human theme since Adam and Eve. Adam and Rory were each faced with his own limitations. They were jealous of a creator, they wanted to be like him. Then his wife was deceived and dangled his temptation in front of him. Maybe he let himself believe it, maybe he didn't, but he wanted the approval of his wife. He wanted it to be true. Either way, he didn't want to lose his wife's approval, didn’t want to lose the false image of himself he saw in her eyes right then. So it took what he knew wasn't his, and assumed a role that didn't belong to him.
The story to me is the question of how someone lives after stealing and lying. It's the story of what it does to relationships. The Adam/Rory character seems to have lost his wife's approval anyway.
How does someone move on with guilt? Do they come clean? Do they just move forward with the benefits of the stealing? Is there a way to fix it?

In another Adam parallel, Bradley Cooper’s character made excuses at first, he didn’t own up to it.
Like Adam, the fake author got a curse from the original creator from whom he stole. In this story, the Old Man said that when the young author stole the book, he got the pain with it. This came true because in stealing the book, Cooper’s character loved The Words more than his wife, and he created a division between himself and his wife. He lost his wife and gained the ability to relate to the pain of the Old Man. Then the feeling behind the words he stole came true for the author.

I like that the story is unfinished, unresolved. That's life, for now. We don’t have resolution at the moment. That’s the point. How do we live with it?