the reality is Madge met and had sex w/Hal (an unemployed drifter w/a criminal record)the first day and within hours of meeting him. Could someone PLEASE tell me what was "romantic" about that?
shareAnd even worse, she leaving behind everything she knows to live with him in Tulsa. Whaddya wanna bet she's back in Kansas within 18 months carrying a baby?
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?
you are absolutely right but we wore rose colored romantic glasses in 1955 - and we didn't believe they had had sex (unheard of in 1955 and we weren't realistic enough to look at the situation logically and clearly. We wanted a happy ending. Times change!!!
shareBy daybreak after the picnic, the entire town probably knew about Madge and the drifter. She may have lost her reputation, even the beauty queen crown! Leaving the town for Tulsa may have been a good idea.
shareShe'll be back, living with her mother again, who will probably do most of the work raising her baby. She'll get a minimum-wage job and eventually marry some local badboy, with whom she will live in a squalid shack or trailer on the edge of town. He will beat her until the day he gets arrested and goes to prison for robbing a gas station. There's your damned happy ending!
shareSounds about right.
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