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the wife ; that sympathy for one or the other or both was present in audience reaction in tremendous proportions.
With the moral considerations clearly defined, the moment the audience became conscious of those two pursuits, wife younger than husband seeking romance, and husband older than wife trying to find out whether she was getting it, the sympathy curve started at an extremely high level. In short, the author had created a circumstance highly partisan, one that forced everybody to take sides or both sides. He reproduced nature itself at war with a dictum of society and civilization that had everybody who could understand English defending either the husband or wife.
In passing, there may be readers who are tempted to meditate upon extent of appeal or non-appeal in moral dictums opposing nature, but that is a subject too involved for anything but a superficial analysis in a book of this kind, having no particular end or purpose anyway as far as movie appreciation is concerned.
More to the reader's advantage is the recognition as early as possible of the distinction between natural, moral and ethical forces as dramatized in the better movies and the extent to which majorities in all classes are in or out of sympathy with those forces.
In Over the Hill as in Street Scene we find unfortunate or deplorable circumstances again operating for greater appeal; an aging mother desperately in need of something to fill the vast emptiness left by children grown and on their own, with the children indifferent to that need. In part, the mother-in-law problem. However, despite the children's indifference to the mother's need of someone to look after and care for, there was no strong non-appealing main pursuit in Over the Hill.
No one could say that a majority in the audience despised the children for shunting their mother from home to home until she no longer had a place to go, which may sound unfeeling yet there is a very substantial reason for it.
There are too many millions of sons-in-law and daughters-in-law envious of mother-in-law's love, jealous of the peace and privacy of their homes, too many millions of aging parents who are self-supporting, too