Helen

She wasn't against them exactly. She (just like Shep and Milly) thought that Frank and April was being a little too out there to be thinking about moving to another country and April work while Frank stayed at home. It was a time where "a woman's place is in the kitchen" while the men worked and they raised their children. She nit-picked at first (in the book anyway) about the idea that here Frank and April wasn't going to live in this "Cookie-cutter image" of living the way that people thought was the "right" way back then. As far as her being mad at Frank, in the book it mentions that when he sells the house, he meets her in a office to sign some paper's and they got along very well. He even hugged her before he left. I guess like most people she was just finding something to gossip and complain about in the final scene when she started talking about Frank and April's home. I also think that it kind of "hints" what made their marriage work because her husband tunes her out whenever she starts to complain.

In the book, she tells her husband that she had found the dried up seedum plants in the basement. But that was after her husband had turned off his hearing aid. In the book she comes off as a really silly woman.

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