Alice Adams (1935)

Poor Alice. She's in a middle class family with a middle class house and middle class clothes. She might even *gasp* have to get a job. It's just not fair! None of the other girls have to get jobs...and sometimes they even make fun of her slightly out-of-date evening wear. Why - the Adams clan can't even afford to have permanent "darkies" serving them! These are the injustices that our heroine is forced to bravely bear. How does she bear it? By pretending she’s rich and getting a milksop society boy to fall for her. He even sticks around when he finds out she’s not what she appeared to be.

After I was finished watching it, my husband flippantly asked me, "So, was she right all along or did she have to learn her lesson?" The honest answer is "Neither." She was wrong all along and learned nothing. Well, at least that part was original.

D+