Monday, February 2, 2015

Mona Lisa Smile Questions

  1. Betty's marriage to Spencer – do you think she was happy? Note her mother's refusal to let her stay with her. Why?
  2. The movie shows relationships of several characters. Were they acceptable in the society at that time? Why / not? 
No I do not think Betty was happy at all. At first she tried to cover up her emotions towards Spencer cheating on her and pretend that everything was fine, but of course living in denial can only last so long until you break. Her mom refused to let her stay with her because it would make their family look bad, her mom is all about appearances. In fact, she loved her families appearance more than she loved her own daughter.

As for the relationships shown in the movie, the majority of them either appeared to be socially acceptable but actually weren't, or they were obviously unacceptable and everyone gossiped about it. These relationships were not socially acceptable during that time because people were very appearance oriented. If the relationship didn't fit how society wanted them to appear, they were deemed as socially unacceptable. 
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownFebruary 2, 2015 at 8:13 AM

    I agree with you Betty was not happy at all she always had to cover up her emotions around people. The relationships in the movie were all fake they pretended to like each other but they really didn't.

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  2. UnknownFebruary 2, 2015 at 8:19 AM

    I agree it was very apparent that Betty wasn't happy. She tried to salvage her relationship with her husband though for the sake of her and her families reputation. As for the relationships in the movie they were very confusing. It was like they all like each other and were best friends but the next they all hated each other.

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  3. kolton schmidtFebruary 2, 2015 at 8:29 AM

    She was not happy but was in denial and tried pushing it off. It was very confusing with the relationships because they did hate each other and then love each other the next minute.

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