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- - - - The entire village turns out to weekly mass
        We see a huge rush to Miss Kellys shop after the 9 o'clock ceremony ends
    - - Grace before meals before eating
      - She feels people should be married before sleeping together
      - Divorce was not legal at this time
      - The younger generation are less strict
      - It is in the final scenes of the film where we see how marriage impacts quite dramatically on Eilis life
        
        Miss Kelly threatens to tell about her marital status
        
        Eilis refuses to be bullied by her
        
        Tony and Eilis sleep together despite it being against the rules of their religion
- - - - The film suggest that 1950s ireland was a restrictive stifling place for women
        The women work in menial jobs
        
        All Ms Kelly's employees are young women
        And they are mistreated by Ms kelly- a mean spirited matriarch
        
        She offers no raise or compassion to Eilis when she is leaving instead she makes her feel guilty that the mothers are always left behind
        
        Rose will be left looking after her mother for the rest of her life
        
        Georgina shows Elis how to assert herself- km - shared bathroom
        This shows us that American women were living in very differents ccs
        
        Women work in the service industry
        Restricted lives
        
        Men also have distinct gender roles
        
        Tony is a gentleman
        
        He is unpresumptuous and honest
        
        He is romantic and sentimental
        
        He did not tell her about baseball as he did not want to appear like a stereotypical Italian american guy
        He values and loves Eilis for herself not just as a woman he will marry to have his children
- - - - We see how social class impacts on characters in Miss Kelly's shop on a Sunday morning
        
        She believes a person's worth is determined by their wealth and position in society
        
        Eilis works here
        
        She does not serve her customers in order
        
        She serves the wealthier first- Mrs Brady
        
        This snobbery is a feature of small town life in the 1950s
        
        The social structure of life is inflexible
        
        The middle class rugby boys are barely distinguishable from one another
        
        JIm Farrell appears to be a typical privileged person
        
        His parents own a pub in town
        
        He wears blazers and hangs out at the rugby club
        
        Soon he will inherit the substantial family home
        
        Tony provides a glimpse into working class US culture
        
        His family live in a cramped apartment
        
        Life is not easy for them
      - Many of the items she packed were belonging to her sister Rose
        Rose is the driving force behind Elis, making most of the arrangements for her passage to NY