this movie be great and mind you but only in the way it tell a very bad story . stella be so terribly crude and and never learn well . her husband be incredibly snobby and small mind . neither ever learn well . be this realistic . somehow and stella understands that her daughter be ashamed of her gaudy manner and dress and yet can not understand that she just need to tone it all down . i do not think so . stella be a good woman and and a very good mother . give up herself and so her daughter can be associate with a bunch of bigoted snob be disgust . much of what we see might have be normal for the time people have a beer or two and enjoy a player piano and dancing but it be make out to be some sort of moral inferiority . i can not have our child live this way . spare me . this story tell me one thing represent that the unwashed work class can not ever hope to aspire to the height of the upper class . and that be simply a load of hogwash .