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In the movie Junebug, there are many aspects of stereotypes presented that, up until watching the film; I was unaware that I had incorporated them into my life. The movie first introduces you to two important characters in an art gallery, Madeline and George, who at the time you are unaware of there relationship. As the movie progresses you find out that, the opening scene is in fact when they first meet and they get married about a week later. This leads me to the first stereotype of the movie, in my opinion the most important one, the shotgun wedding. As Andre points out in her article “psychologists use the term, the central characteristics of a stereotype is its rigidity: it persists in spite of evidence”, the whole idea that shotgun weddings are inevitably doomed for destruction will persists regardless of the hundreds of thousands, if not billions, of weddings that have started as a “shotgun wedding” and have lasted to test the times.
After you found out in the movie that they only knew each other for about a week before they got married and that they have only been married for 6 months a little phrase pops up in your mind “they don’t even know each other”, I mean really, how well do you know someone after only one week, that marriage will never last. That to me is a major stereotype. In today’s society it is rarely acceptable to marry someone without a prolonged relationship and in some cases couples can take decades in order to get married and that is perfectly acceptable to society because it means that they “are getting to know one another”. I find that odd because when comparing today’s society with that of the past (lets say 60 years ago), we are plagued with higher divorce rates. For example, my grandparents did not meet until they were in front of the priest and they were married for 67 years (and still would be married had my grandfather not passed away). In the movie Peg, George’s mother, was first introduced as Pat because Madeline did...