Discuss the weak_strong believe of the family?

I think that the family accepts suffering as the main constant in life. Does this make them strong? I'm not sure.

What more can we want than that? No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.

Maurya, 71

The final lines of the play signify Maurya's resignation to the power of the sea. She has spent her life fighting against it, desperately looking for warnings and omens and always failing to keep her family safe. She ignored the platitudes of the Catholic Church as she vied with the sea, and stubbornly refused to give in to her family's gibes and derision. In the end she becomes a symbolic Mary, grieving for dead Jesus: she is an eternal picture of patient suffering. No longer having to worry about the sea, she can turn back to the comforting (and more anodyne) rituals of the Church. Holy water is the only water that matters now, as the sea has metaphorically receded from her cottage.