Mona Lisa Smiles

During the 1950's, it was a time of strict social rules that everyone followed. For the most part the woman's only job was to do stuff at the home while the husband went out and did the real work. The exception to this was when women went to school, only to waste time and not really use the education she got. Like I said earlier, this was a time when there were strict social rules that for the most part everyone followed. This is seen lots of times so far in the movie. When the teacher first arrives at her room, she is given a list of rules, which included the playing of your radio at certain times and the last of which says that you aren't allowed to have men in your room. If you did such a thing it would be promiscuous and it would go against society. When the teacher went to the next housing location, the host spent most of the time explaining the aspects she has added to the house, like the matching embroidery, and she seemed extremely proud about this, which goes along with the goal to be the perfect house wife. She also spent alot of time priding herself on how the teacher doesn't have to worry about cooking dinner because she will be taking acare of it, and for everything else there is a shelf in the fridge. The girls in the teachers class were all perfectlywell behaved also. They all did their homework before class and very activily participated. This just shows that for the mot part, people did what they were told.