In the movie, Mona Lisa Smiles, the women are given expected standards that they are expected to follow. The life that people life is a very conservative life. Although some of the girls, we see, in the movie don't exactly like these specific rules. One of the characters in the movie had birth control and all of the girls looked at her like she was crazy because that sort of thing wasn't allowed in that time period. Katherine teaches a class of very text book educated students. She has a hard time with this because the students learn what they are told rather than thinking with themselves and coming up with new ideas. These girls are also expected to get married and have have high expectations of their future but from other people, not from themselves. I would not like this because I like to do my own thing and think of new ideas and live by what I believe in.
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I agree with what you are saying with the idea that women were getting married at a ridiculously young age. However one thing I think you should of mentioned was that one of the more distinguishing characteristics of the 1950's was how women were subservient and defined themselves on how they took care of their husbands.
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