The topics I choose to use were numbers 5 and 6. Five asks if we think Betty was happy with her marriage, and six is about the relationships the characters shared in the movie and if they were acceptable or not.

Betty first believed that marriage was the best thing on the earth. She tried to convince all of her friends about marriage, and tried to get them to see how amazing her own life was. However, as her marriage goes on, she begins to see that her husband is leaving a lot more often to go to "business" matters, and is when he leaves he is gone for long periods of time. This begins the downward spiral for Betty. Back in this time it was the women's job to be a wife. So even when Betty became suspicious about her husband's intentions, her mother would not let her leave him because divorce was unethical. It made the family look bad, and made the women look disobedient cause she is longer withholding her wifely duties. Betty finally hits her breaking point and decides it is time for a divorce, she decides to go and move with her friend so that she a steady place to live and figure out her life thanks to Katherine.

This leads for us to see the relationships in this time. Teachers were meant to be professional with their students and not give them guidance. The school began to look at Katherine with discontent as they saw her "forcing" her way of life on the students. All Katherine wanted to do was show the women that they could all be much more than they were told possible. It was the women's job to be the wife, and to always have dinner on the table for her husband, while it was the husband's job to provide. So when all of these women told that they could be the providers if they so pleased, it made a lot of people angry because it was breaking the norm. The lives of the students were not to be affected by a teacher, or any other personnel. When Katherine saw that she was being judged for these actions of trying to help her fellow women, she decided to leave the school knowing that it would be stupid of her to submit to the schools new policies, and give up her way of life. Katherine wanted to lead by example, so showing the girls to be strong, and take your own path was the last lesson she could teach them to finally show the girls they are as strong as the men that they wait to marry. The relationships of this time were strictly professional and to the book, Katherine saw this, and wanted a change.