Comment on a decision made by a character that reflects or revokes a value from the 1950s.
In the movie, Mona Lisa Smiles, Betty is engaged and was married during the movie. She is married while she is in college. This reflects what society tells people during that time period. During the 1950's women are expected to get married and serve to their husbands. Katherine doesn't like this type of society. She teaches her class to not follow what society always tell you and think of ideas for yourself. Betty is always wanting to follow society and marry and do as she is told. Betty Warren takes an approach to life like society revokes in the 1950's. She takes a very traditional approach to life where as Katherine doesn't teach this and doesn't understand why you can't come up with your own ideas and not follow the "rules" that society pushes on you.
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I think the reasons for Betty's actions that you gave were correct. It is interesting how betty is the carbon copy of those traditional values that were ingrained in sociey, yet she is thrown in the middle of a group of people that represent change.
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