His Girl Friday Cont.

Walter keeps insisting to Hildy that a newspaper story is not just a story but also a career. She gets drawn into getting the scoop on a story, because that is her instinct as a reporter. She does everything to get this story, and Bruce keeps getting in trouble and arrested as a result of her. As far as the moral story of the movie, I think it is a reporter, especially back in that time would do anything for a story and lived for a good story. To them, and still today, it is the most important thing to a person. Hildy was printing a story and basically shrugs off Bruce saying, “…can’t you see this is the most important thing in my life?”. Bruce walked out of the room while Hildy and Walter where starting up the story, and Hildy again just shrugged off this notion. She does come to realization, but everyone is blind to everything else when they are involved in a story. The story seems to consume each person involved with in it. Another example is when the cops are in the room with all the other people, the people are on the phone while the murderer is in the desk. The people are narrating what is going on verbatim, in sort of an “extra, extra” way.

As far as this movie using reverse snobbery, I think it was. Everyone is pretty much dressed up in this movie, especially in suits, and they all (the reporters) kind of act pompous and seem to be above everyone else. In addition, Walter throws out higher numbered salaries when trying to recruit them to work for him.