posted 12 years ago by cookiela2001
Yes, I know she was emotionally bound to her father and the conventions of the times didn't encourage defying your parents, but the guy did ask her to marry him once and she didn't, and then she not only went to Europe for 6 months but stayed there for a whole year...
I'm not sure why she imagined her father would ever change.
Very sad story and well done (and of course I've seen the original), but this is also the story of someone who WASTED THEIR OWN LIFE.
Oh, she's even more obnoxious(crueler than her father even) in The Heiress(1949). Morris does wait for her when she comes back. She tells him point-blank that they must never have contact with her father again or ask him for anything- including her inheritance. Morris even "helps" a bit by saying that her father will relent eventually. Then, the fool had to nip that in the bud by saying even if that were to happen, *she* never would.
Then she proceeded to blame her father completely for her own foolishness. Accuse her aunt the rest of her family of not loving her for not feeding into her delusions that Morris doesn't care a wit about her money. "Love" wasn't even a primary factor for marriages during this time and society, which makes her actions all the more foolish and reckless.🙄
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