Resolution

The ending of "Ligeia" depicts an intense and shocking scene where Lady Rowena transforms into Ligeia. The tone of the Narrator in the last scene is anxious and confused. He witnesses the entire transformation; when Rowena's face is lively again, "the cheeks-- there were the roses as in her noon life" and "the chin, with its dimples, as in health." However, the Narrator feels suspicion towards his once living wife, he questioned, could this be "the fair-haired, the blue-eyed Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine?" He noticed the subtle changes; "has she then grown taller since her malady?" Suddenly, with complete shock, the Narrator notices "the huge masses of long and dishevelled hair; it was blacker than the raven wings of the midnight!" Also, "the eyes of the figure," the haunting and unforgetable eyes that he had cherished for so long when Ligeia was alive. "Those eyes! those large, those shining, those divine orbs!" In his suprise, he screams out ""Here then, at least," I shreiked aloud, "can I never--can I never be mistaken--these are the full, and the black, and the wild eyes--of my lost love--of the lady--of the LADY LIGEIA.""
The reader never fully knows if Ligeia has indeed come back to life through Rowena's body because of the little distinction between the supernatural and reality in the Narrator's life. This scene could just be a hallucination from one of his opium dreams. However, it could be the real ghost of Ligeia coming back to finish her life. In the short story, the Narrator has a romantically theme based life where the supernatural plays a huge role, where everything could be reality or perhaps, an uncontrollable dream.