What if Rose Dewitt married Jack Dawson and became Mrs. Rose Dawson .
Instead of dying of cold like the other corpse who had a whistle stuck to his mouth, Jack survives and they get married somewhere near the Statue of Liberty. Oh very romantic, but let’s be real, there is no mending old ways you see. So in a couple of months, Jack would have gone back to what he did best, painting nude French girls and playing poker with absolute strangers.
Now he keeps boasting about his lucky escape from the sinking Titanic conveniently forgetting the fact that it was a “lucky” hand of poker that got him there in the first place; even ruthlessly thrusting it as a winning example for his philosophy of ‘taking life as it comes’. He would go on to sell the ‘Heart of the Ocean’ to fund his vagabond lifestyle and end up broke in no time. Meanwhile, Mrs. Rose Dawson, surprise, surprise, wants to settle down!
She gets back to being lost and delirious once again. Jack is not earning any money and Rose’s only skill, that of standing on her toes, is not helping her find a job!
In no time, Rose wants to go back to the very circumstance that she wanted Jack to save her from. She has had enough of living among the have nots with their almost despicable lifestyle filled with drinking crappy beer and dancing around in a circle. Oh and every time she goes to one of those parties, she has to do the toe thing and some old fisherman hits on her. Now just for a change she wants to go back and live with the elitists and aristocrats, where everyone is so much better behaved at least in public and where she might even get a pint of respect as one of the more adventurous type.
Most of all, she wants to go back there because that is where she belongs and she just realized it! She wants to share her sorrow with her mother, the woman she once despised. She goes to her for comfort, she confides in her. All that traveling needs money and she has to borrow from her Mom! And Ruth who did not have much to begin with has lost almost everything after their fallout with the Hockley family.
Once again Rose feels lonely and even wishes to have a child but Jack is away painting nude girls in Amsterdam (why Amsterdam? why not! Still some cash left from selling the jewel).
At this, Rose Dewitt wakes up and walks towards the window. She opens the blinds to that alternate universe directed by James Cameron, looks straight at the now dead and almost frozen Jack Dawson and sighs, “Good riddance” and the Titanic crew standing below the stairs clap in ecstasy once again.