To what extent is the ending of 'The Mill On The Floss' a reconcilement of the novel?

One interpretation of the final image of the novel is that, even in death, Maggie is dominated by her brother and tied inescapably from her family; it is both an act of reconcile and revenge. Yet this reading of the novel ignores the tenderness of their death: 'Tom's uttering of the old childish "Magsie"', their dying embrace, thier reliving of one supreme moment, 'the days they had clasped their little hands in love, and roamed the daisied fields together'. Tom and Maggie are returned to a state of childish innocence, in which for one supreme moment, they are able to glimpse through the 'golden gates of childhood' from the 'thorny wildnerness'. It is the emphemeral realisation of Maggie's intangiable dream that she and Tom might live together in happiness, regardless of the circumstances of their past involvements and the destiny of their fate. The tragedy of the novel is that Tom and Maggie, like Oedipus and Mr Tulliver, share a metaphorical blindness to their fate, common to all mortals. As the novel continues, references to death become more insistent and inevitable. The reader is encouraged to perceive the incompatibility of Maggie's supreme belief in love and the will of Tom and her father.