Mrs Watt is an adult, is she not?

Life has changed a great deal since the era depicted in this movie. There have been many inalienable rights finally acknowledged...with more still overdue.



Ciao, e buon auguri

I think, underneath all the anger and resentment, the daughter-in-law was afraid to love Mrs. Watts. Mrs Watts had a real bad ticker and maybe they thought all this "Going home to Bountiful" talk was senility setting in. I know the elderly should be allowed to make their own decisions and all but, you know what they say. "Old people are just bent kids" So I understand that part. What made me angry was the John Herd character NOT protecting his mother, at least some of the time, from this whining child he had the misfortune of marrying. It's too bad that they didn't have children and the wife's life is so unfulfilling but, nobody in that house had a fulfilled life. They just went about showing it in different ways. The mother wanted to go back to a time when her life was at least partly content, the husband became silent and apathetic and the wife, well she just regressed into beauty shops, gum balls, romance magazines and glasses of Coke

Welcome to more realities than you'd care to think existed