Movie Blog 2

• Blog – Comment on a decision made by a character that reflects or revokes a value from the 1950s.

One example of a decision made by a character that revokes a value from the 1950’s is Joan wanting to go to Yale for law school. The girls who go to Wellesley normally graduate then get married, and once your married you are a housewife. Katherine, Joan’s art history teacher noticed that Joan wanted to study law and so she gave her an application to Yale Law School. Katherine’s decision of trying to get her students away from the ‘normal’ is an example of what girls normally did not do in the 1950’s. Katherine didn’t want the girls thinking that getting married was their only choice in life; she wanted to open the window to possibilities.