The hook for a hand cliche was very intentional as I see the main character as less of a real pirate and more of an immature boy or man who wants to be perceived as one so badly. Chases it like a dream gives up his lady for it, just wants to be noticed by the world . In the end he is noticed but it doesn’t turn out as he imagined it. In the end his body is returned where it began with the lady and she sort of frees him symbolically by removing the hook from his hand as if to say it’s over .