Portrayal of time period

Mona Lisa Smile portrays this era as an era that is not open for change but is completely ready for it. Everything was so rigid in structure that change and flexibility was inevitable. Because of the way that Julia Roberts is in the film she becomes an agent of change. She is someone who believe in individuality in an overall unindividual age. The things that are too riid at the time and gice a good portrayal of the time are throughout the movie. The situation with the birth control and the firing of the nursecompletely protrays a complete unwillingness for the accepting of change. Other areas where change is shown as an enemy is the situation in which Kirsten Dunst in married. She is completely ungappt but she thinks that her marriage is so normal and so perfect because of how she sees the generation before her going.