28 UP Suzi

In the second part of the viewing we looked at Suzi.

- At age 7 Suzi was obviously from an upper class family, it was clear from the way she held herself, they way she spoke of her future and her physical appearance
- She wanted 2 kids with a nanny to take care of them
- She went to boarding school at 8 years of age which includes women's finishing school
- She spent her summers at her father's estate in Scotland
- At 16 she left school and moved to Paris, she just wasn't "interested" in school
- At 21 she was against marriage
- She wanted to get on with her own life
- She had a much more rebellious and feministic body language as she chain smoked, spoke of marriage and thought she knew everything but still had no real aspirations in life
- By 22 she was married, she said she just hadn't met the right man yet and didn't know what she wanted out of life yet at 21
- She married down but was still within a comfortable upper class standing
- At 28 she didn't see herself as moving up any further
- Hated boarding school because she was too young at 8 to leave her family, but has decided to send her children at 13 years old because it is a little older, and it is what she knows and so will send her children through the system she understands best

"The double rebellion"
- Rich upper class women go to university, generally have Marxist professors. The women rebel against their sexist, wealthy, elite upbringing. Then they graduate and marry someone of their own class anyways.

Suzi seems to follow this path. She rebels at some point but still ends up in the same comfortable status she was raised in and continues to keep her children in the same one as well. It comes down to inheritance and marriage. I think there is a trend in this behaviour because the women, and men, know that there will always be that safety net there for if they ever decide to return to the easy, wealthy life that is handed to them.