Course Details
966: On Golden Pond: Understanding Family Relationships
February 3-6, 2020
11:45 AM -
1:15 PM
In-Person
Using the movie, On Golden Pond, we will meet the Thayler family – a husband, wife, and grown (partially estranged) daughter struggling with her hypercritical father. We’ll come to understand the range of family emotions of love, anger, ambivalence. As this family struggles with old hurts, conflicts, and aging, we’ll see how the mother is caught in the gender trap of trying to mediate between the two people she loves the most. We will see excerpts of the film that demonstrate the themes of gender roles, changing parent/adult child roles, and aging/failing health. You will be warmed, charmed, and may shed a few tears.
Class Type: Discussion
Class Format: TBA
Hours of Reading: No reading
Study Group Leader(s):
Karen Gail LewisDr. Karen Gail Lewis has been a family therapist for more than four decades. She has published numerous books and articles about family relationships. She has taught at OLLI for over a decade.