Backbencher

The movie, My Brilliant Career is about a young woman, Sybylla Melvyn that is becoming of age to get married and move out from her parents, although she does not want to get married. Sybylla wants to peruse a career in the arts. He mother first arranges her to become a general servant but she would not accept that. Sybylla then gets a letter from her grandmother to come live with her, and I think I can pretty accurately say that the underlying motive of this arrangement is to have her grandmother help her get married. When Sybylla arrives, her grandmother quickly disapproves of her free will, and would like to see her married a suitable man, such as Frank Jordan. My favorite part of the movie was when Sybylla and Frank go to the store, and when Frank gets out to open the gate, Sybylla takes off in the buggy and leaves left Frank behind. Sybylla does meet someone that she is fond of, a man named Harry Beecham. The two fall in love and Harry wants to get married, as does Sybylla, but she just isn’t ready. She tells him to give her two years to figure out what is wrong with her and the world. After the two years are up, she still is not ready. The movie ends with Sybylla putting a package into the mailbox addressed to a publishing company.

In one sentence, this was a movie of few words. I think this movie shows that Australia is ahead of the times when it comes to equal rights between sexes. I don’t think there were any movies in the 70’s in America about equal rights like this one. I know this movie was written after a book, was there any more conclusion in the end of the book? Did she find that career?