The women s role in the 50's were all the same had to stay home with the kids, take care of the house , cook food every night for the family, and listen and do whatever the husband says. Kathrine Watson wanted to stir the women away from that but the school was set on just preparing them for a house wife they fell in line and when Kat would try to show a different way a few of them didn't like it and felt that she was disrespecting the school. It took them til the end to realize that Kathrine was trying to show them a better way.




Subversive means to go against or change an established system or institution, so like when she was trying to get the girls away from being another lame ole house wife and become a better person and actually be someone that they want to be in life. I can see how shes labeled as that because the school was so set on having the girls be a house wife but when Kathrine came she tried to change it up like the teaching was she didn't want to go by the book because everyone already read it and it was dumb and also there lives Kathrine wanted them to become somebody and be there own person.