Mona Lisa Smile

Women's roles played a major part in "Mona Lisa Smile". With the time period being in the mid-1950s, women were supposed to be a housewife. No job or post college degree. When Wellesley College gave a job to an art history teacher who thought that she needed to change the way women thought, they were concerned with her roles in her students' lives. She believed that women were not just meant to stay at the house and succumb to any need of their husband, but to achieve what they wanted to do in life. With all of her help, many of her students, and herself, found what the true meaning of living a happy life, even if it did not abide by the status quo.