For those who found the ending unsatisfactory, what if it had ended:
a) with Israel aboard the Ariel, masquerading as someone else in order to fit in?
b) with him fleeing successfully after Ethan Allen recognizes and calls out to him?
c) with him in London, making do and enjoying his old age with his son?
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I think the lack of a sense of closure at the end of Israel Potter was a vital part of the reading. For me, he seems to fade away and disseminate from being. I read it as symbolic of his constant identity confusion and search. Any ending with more closure and solidarity would have taken away from a greater message that I felt with the current ending.
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