I don't get it. She is young and single, why did Kathleen not let Paul come up to her at first? She only started dating him in the end of the movie.
Perhaps she liked Lewis all the time?
Did you pay any attention to the film? She knew he was engaged. She started dating him after he broke up with his fiance.
shareI don't get it. She is young and single...
She knew before he arrived that he was happily engaged.
shareHard to understand the question, actually. Do you mean that any young, single woman would (or should) be instantly responsive to the advances of a guy? I mean, does a woman have to have a reason not to be interested in a guy, or is she obligated?
I don't think there's any reason to assume she should have been interested in the first place.
But I do think (as other posters have suggested) that for one thing, she thought he was engaged, and so when he approached her she knew this about him when he didn't know that she knew it -- and for him not to admit it up front was a distinctly off-putting factor.
It's also true that since she had agreed at least not to bust the townspeople on their collective fiction, she probably would've had no interest in getting any kind of relationship going with a guy who 1) might not stay at all; 2) probably would leave once he (inevitably) found out about the fiction; and/or 3) if he stayed, would be staying on false pretenses, which is no way to build a relationship -- and it would've obligated her to be an active participant in that fiction, in perpetuity.
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