Part three, especially, from 169 ("She found work...") to 178 page ("I'll help you if you like, he said") highlights one of the most important topic of the novel: Rose's death, caused by a heart-attack.

Eilis's, differently from her colleagues at Bartocci's (her workplace), "was careful how she stood, and she watched out in case a costumer needed her", even if she did not like her work and hoped that time passed quickly.

As luck would have it, she came to know Rose's death, during her working time from Father Flood, who came to Bartocci's out of blue.

After being convened, she had not thought to receive such a terrible news.

Becoming aware of it, caused a terrible pain in Eilis that was snobbing in her disbeliefs.

Eilis was suffering because she could not seen her sister for the last time.

Her found difficult to accept it.

Nobody were aware of Rose's fragile heart: this had been a secret she hidden, maybe to not appear as a weak person, destroying ideas of "fake" perfection people thought about her.

Eilis and her mother were struggled into an indelible pain, into terrible cries.

She tortured herself making questions about how Rose was dead and felt before dying. (Last seven phrases of page 177).

Tony's neighborhood, helped Eilis to get better but did not made forgetting her sister's death.