What did Pauline do after she left school?
[jp,sb] She went back to school, as she had to, to become employable. Only now, she was in a vocational school, learning to type and file–at Digby’s Commercial College. So she could eventually get that dead-end, mindless job. The contrast between the wonderful fantasy world she shared with Juliet and the hard reality of her daily life must have been stark to Pauline. The pull-back tracking shot of Pauline typing in a growing sea of typists, at Digby’s, as the sound of letters smacking the page grew and grew, is a wonderful one even as it is terribly dispiriting for the audience to see. “Digby’s” is an ominous shadow on the wall, hanging above Pauline’s head. The entire class is women, in an ironic perversion of the school she just left. Pauline even sat in the same seat as in her CGHS classes. She is dressed in black.
