Betty

Betty is one of the main characters in the movie. I pretty much hate her because she is a b*tch. She’s really touchy and aspires to be the typical “housewife.”
She gets upset when she finds out that the nurse is giving out birth control to girls. So, she complains about it in her newspaper job. However, she seems kind of cowardly because instead of telling the dean, she writes it in the school paper. Maybe she does this because she wants to show off. Betty does the same thing to Katherine.
She calls Katherine subversive because she said that she would fail Betty for not coming to class. Connie said that most teachers turn their heads when the married students don’t come to class or don’t turn in papers. But Katherine expects her to be in class and to do all of the assignments. This makes Betty angry and they have a face-off, which concludes in a few snide comments of each other.
In one of her columns, she writes that Katharine is disrupting their traditions, messing with the women of the school and keeping them from “the role they were born to fill.” The values for women in the 1950s were to get married and have children. The expectations were to clean, cook, and take care of the husband and kids.
In the movie, Katherine challenges these girls to think outside the box. She wants them to think for themselves, and not what a textbook tells them to say and think. Betty just wants to be married and have her children and her laundry washer and dryer. Betty is the epitome of the values in the 1950s.