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'It's past your bedtime, Vinny.'

posted 16 years ago by LordLustworthy
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Okay, I know things were different 140+ years ago, but would a father really tell his grown daughter to go off to bed? I know Roz was playing younger in the film, but not that much younger! Would a gal in her late 20's (at best) even have a bedtime?

Although if she never got over her childhood fascination with Daddy, then he indeed probably did have the power of suggestion over her. ("Why yes, father. As a matter of fact, I am feeling a bit pekid.")

"They're all gonna laugh at you! They're all gonna laugh at you!

[–] smokehill retrievers 14 years ago

I think that was probably very typical of most families of that time. Women were basically considered as just extensions of some man ... their fathers, at first -- later, their husbands. Though not to the sick degree that, for instance, most European (and certainly Muslim) societies carried it, it was certainly the case in American society, at least in most cases.

Keep in mind that they couldn't vote, hold public office, and in many cases could not even own property in their own right. Many of the Southern states, like Virginia, were far more progressive in that department, though, and women could basically hold property and bank accounts on their own.

[–] ObstinateAnnette 14 years ago

I didn't really take the comment literally. It seemed to be Ezra's way of telling his daughter to give him and his wife some privacy.

I need my 1987 DG20 Casio electric guitar set to mandolin, yeah...

[–] vindicatedplum 13 years ago

Agreed. It was nothing more than a request from a father to have some time alone with her mother, and since it was close to the time people retired in those days... this is the logical conclusion.

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