Brontë Parrish in the movie “Green Card” is a female character who possesses mostly masculine traits from the Bem Sex Role inventory. She is an assertive person, described in one scene as being someone who, when she wants something, she simply “takes it“. When Brontë sets her heart on getting an apartment with a greenhouse, she agrees to marry French immigrant George Faure in order to persuade the landlords that, as a married woman, she will be a respectable tenant. Brontë is willing to risk being caught in a fraudulent marriage in order to get what she wants.
As far as feminine qualities go, Brontë is both sympathetic and sensitive to the needs of others. She works for a volunteer organization that builds gardens in underprivileged, rural areas of the city so that impoverished children have “something other than chaos to climb”. Even when exhibiting these feminine qualities, it is emphasized that Brontë is a masculine character in her defense of her own beliefs. While fighting with George about the merits of her volunteer work, Brontë makes it clear that she believes in what she does and that her work provides a worthwhile service to children in need.
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