So, what do you think happens to Maria?
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kmc-4 — 13 years ago(March 13, 2013 07:36 AM)
I'm 36, so I'm not young but I don't have the most experience in the romantic department either.
I'd like to think Maria went on to have as good a life as possible and that she's found happiness at least in her kids and grandkids. That sort of thing. -
JCrewgirl — 12 years ago(April 07, 2013 08:44 PM)
I think she stays in new York considering the fact that the whole reason they moved there was to find a better life and back then Puerto Rico wasn't exactly the best place to live. But however I'm sure she got over the whole thing eventually and finally married and had kids, she may even name one Anton.
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friendoffilm — 12 years ago(March 30, 2014 10:18 AM)
Natalie Wood's death was sadand eerie. Nobody really knows how she died, despite the fact that the case was re-opened 3 years ago, at around the 50th-year Anniversary national re-release of the film
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hodie — 12 years ago(April 19, 2013 03:01 PM)
Well, she was living with her parents and they were still alive. I assume that like most people she mourned for a time and eventually got over the heartache. I doubt she married Chino since there seemed to be no chemistry between them. She probably married someone who wasn't in the story.
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otter — 11 years ago(September 25, 2014 09:56 PM)
Yeah, well, that's where the source material would put her fate.
Of course she didn't kill herself due to the peculiar circumstances of Shakespear's play. But maybe Tony left her pregnant, and her family was so awful about it that she saw only one way out. Or maybe her family was horrible even if she didn't get pregnant, they abused her or planned to send her back to Puerto Rico - just because she got with a no-good hood who wasn't even a Puerto Rican no-good hood!
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friendoffilm — 11 years ago(May 04, 2014 12:34 PM)
Nobody knows what really happened to Maria, but I can't imagine that she'd want to marry Chino after he'd killed Tony, the guy that Maria really loved. Who can tell, however. In real life, people date and even marry criminals all the time.
Maria and Anita just went on with their lives, after mourning for their dead lovers, working in the Bridal Shop for several more years, before deciding to go back to school so that they could change careers. Maria decides to go into the health professions, goes back to school and becomes a medical secretary at a large NYC Hospital. Anita goes back to school, to a nursing school in NYC, becoming a Registered Nurse, and landing a job at a large NYC hospital, the same hospital that she'd attended nursing school in. -
noirgirl — 10 years ago(July 05, 2015 03:07 PM)
Since the end of the story shows (esp. with the lifting of Tony's body) that they all grew up and learned a terrible lesson about hatred and bigotry. I think she mourned Tony for a while, but ended up marrying one of the Jets like BabyJohn who was kind and gentle, and also a link to Tony. Anita, I think married another of the Sharks and stayed a seamstress, since I don't think she ever was able to let go of her hatred and resentment. She made it quite clear in the rooftop dance scene that she had no desire to be in Puerto Rico.
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pontevedro — 10 years ago(July 09, 2015 09:36 AM)
One of the prior posters suggested that Maria committed suicide, as in R&J. Indeed, Maria's suicide was included in the musical version of West Side Story until very close to its first performance. Apparently, the scene was removed at the suggestion of Richard Rodgers as being unnecessarily dark.
Also, I think that the peace that appears after Tony's death can only be regarded as temporary at best. The gangs will be back at odds within the week. The best you could hope for might be that a few gang members might give up gang life in reaction. But many or most would continue on.
Sorry to be so bleak. But this drama is definitely not a musical "comedy" - it's a musical tragedy.
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