Regrets and Realizations: Ruth
Ruth Dewitt Bukater was in shock; she had just seen the ship that was called unsinkable go down into the cold dark ocean. All of Ruth's hopes and dreams went down with that ship and now she was beginning to realize what she had lost. Her beloved daughter Rose was probably in that icy water freezing to death or had already succumbed to hypothermia.
"Don't worry Ruth, I'm sure Rose is ok" Said Molly Brown
Ruth desperately hoped that Molly was right and that Rose was safe in one of the other lifeboats. She then remembered Cal Hockley; he had never been the ideal man for Rose. Even Ruth saw that but she was too worried about money and about her place in the high society of Philadelphia to care about Rose's needs. She had seen how unhappy Rose had been since they announced the engagement but she failed to say anything. She had allowed her daughter to be trapped in a one-sided relationship.
Ruth suddenly had a vision of Rose as a little girl, running barefoot on the grass, her red hair flailing in the wind. She heard her shouting, " look at me mommy, look at me". She then saw her daughter on the day they set out on the Titanic. She looked like she was headed to a funeral instead of her wedding. Then Ruth saw her daughter's face on the night that Jack had come to dinner in first class. It was the first time Ruth had seen her daughter truly happy in a long time. Suddenly she was snapped back to the reality by the sound of whistles and someone shouting that they had spotted a ship.