They say that love is love, but what if for love your life becomes miserable? if love gets you criticized by half the town? that's what makes it so complex, how love should come first. During the course of the novel we see how loving the wrong man and making bad decisions led to her death, she has the opportunity to be happy but chose the other path. Love can give life or take it, listening to your heart is good but the mind and the heart work better together and if she chose the good and noble man, Eliza will have her family and live long enough for them. see it grow. What Webster is trying to express in the story is that holding on to the wrong person or situation will end up being bad. Love is important but not more than dignity, these two morals are linked, don't love someone more than yourself. There is a saying: We accept the love we think we deserve and Eliza did that, all she wanted was to be in love thinking that being second option one day would do it