For the queen of Navarre, the story was apparently worth including in the Heptaméron because it illustrated a set of themes she found significant: the trials of faith, the capacity of women for spiritual endurance, and the injustice of a social system that punished women for their desires while leaving men who engaged in similar behavior unpunished.

The sixty-seventh tale is notable for the sympathy with which the narrator treats the abandoned woman and the implicit critique of the captain who left her.

For Thevet, the story was worth recording as part of a broader account of French colonial enterprise in the New World, in which the adventures and misadventures of French travelers were documenting the character and challenges of a new territory.

For Belleforest, the story was worth expanding because it could serve as a vehicle for the kind of tragic narrative that his Histoires tragiques specialized in — stories of passion, punishment, and either redemption or destruction.