Why the didn't like her

For me there is no clear answer and I loved that about this movie. Meredith made it hard to like her, but part of that was she was so different than the rest of the family. She wanted to be liked but was to nervous about it. So there was going to be a clash of personalties, and that is were all the great comedy and drama came from. I did not hate or love anybody in this movie, but found all the characters interesting and that's what made the movie so good for me. I am from Norway so my spelling is not the best but I don't think your are supposed "to take sides" in this movie. You can understand the motivations behind some of the strange actions the people in this movie make, even if you dont like them. Like I said, I really liked that about this moive. To me this was one of the best drama/comedies of the last few years.

I don't think she was uptight or stuck up, just different from them. Wow so she wears black etc. I think we've all said or done things and then been like damn why didn't I say or do it this way. They were mean to her, because Amy talked about her so bad so that's what they expected. They were feeding off her hate and no matter what Meredith would have done they would have found something negative.

I think most of the characters are insecure individuals, and the movie centers around how this insecurity makes them relate to people around them and how it causes them to act and treat others.

Some of these reasons are very good reasons not to like someone, but none of these are reasons to be purposefully rude to someone.

It is not justifiable to be rude to someone based on
a) the fact that they're not as calm as you are
b) they're weird
c) what they wear
d) not knowing everything about someone's handicap
e) wanting to be acknowledged as an adult and spend the night with the one person in the house you know when you're staying in a house with strangers who don't like you
f) not smiling
g) being boring

As far as her being stuck up I didn't see it at all, and she may have been a bit abrasive when she was on the phone, but she did start focusing on the family once her business issues had been squared away. I'm sure at some point in your life you've had to get something done right away and put someone in the corner until you got it taken care of. The point is she made an effort while the family was cruel to her for reasons a-g, which makes them wrong. And while it was the basis of the movie is made the whole thing very difficult to watch, like a pack of wolves taking down a rabbit.

The family did not like her because they could manifest the true emotions of everett. everett did not love her.
everett did not run after her wne she escaped from their cuelty at the dinner table.

Some families are pretty brutal when first meeting someone who might be joining the family, particular the siblings. I've seen sisters be mercilessly catty to their brother's fiancee, saying things that normally would result in them being dressed down publicly for their rudeness.

Meredith was doomed because Amy decided she didn't like her; her own stress reactions were exactly the wrong things to do with that particular family dynamic. The fact that her sister Julie was so comfortable in her own skin and therefore with everyone else just made it worse.