For some unknown and irritating reason, media directed at unformed female minds delights in the image of the marriage-happy idiot girl lumbered with the nauseating obsession of not alienating the unlucky target of her fixation by being 'forward' by showing any signs of a personality or threatening him by having marketable job skills lest she die alone, forgotten and (worst of all) not be the centre of attention at a great big party that's all about how pretty she is. The idea that a wedding is the beginning of a life that must lived afterwards is seen as a threat to the Happily Ever After that must be ignored as long as possible and almost always leads to the person in question and her family trudging through a miserable life because she isn't actually prepared to function in the real world and won't admit that she charged head long down a blind alley.
The reason that I mention this is that it looks to me as if Lynn herself is such a person owing to her fixation with the idea of grade-school sweethearts building their whole life together when other, normal kids talk about cooties and how gross the opposite sex is. This can only mean one thing: when Fred MacRae is talking about courting Martha, he isn't joshing in order to mess with the head of a flavour of the month boy toy, he actually wants to know what Mike's career plans are. Lynn can't depict a world she never lived in so there is no such thing as a casual meet-up that goes nowhere because yes, Donny Osmond, it is only puppy love. Elly can't meet Martha because if she does, she has to shop for a matron of honour dress.
The reason that I mention this is that it looks to me as if Lynn herself is such a person owing to her fixation with the idea of grade-school sweethearts building their whole life together when other, normal kids talk about cooties and how gross the opposite sex is. This can only mean one thing: when Fred MacRae is talking about courting Martha, he isn't joshing in order to mess with the head of a flavour of the month boy toy, he actually wants to know what Mike's career plans are. Lynn can't depict a world she never lived in so there is no such thing as a casual meet-up that goes nowhere because yes, Donny Osmond, it is only puppy love. Elly can't meet Martha because if she does, she has to shop for a matron of honour dress.