Evelyn Decides To Move To India

Evelyn, a recently widowed woman: dealing with the after effects of an unhappy marriage, her husband’s debt, and a dependency on other people. Such as shown in the scene introducing us to Evelyn, we observe her snapping at someone on the phone, when they are unsympathetic to her plight of needing to take care of a dead man’s finances. Transitioning into a scene of Her talking with the lawyer and her son about the debts that her husband left her to take care of and learning that this is what developed by blindly trusting her husband to take care of everything. Decides to move to India and gains new experiences that help her in learning how to be an independent, working, and happier version of herself. This journey of growth begins as she is looking for a place to live after selling her flat; taking her first step towards growth by deciding to live on her own, even if she still needed her son’s assistance to to put the plan together. First arriving in India, Evelyn seems to latch on to Graham, and takes a bit to start getting used to the area. He helps her open up and enjoy the culture surrounding her, as she learns the area, she sums up the experience for …show more content…
Each of them has a path that they have learned to walk and almost all of them are working to expand themselves to another purpose, now that they have more understanding of life. When first introducing Evelyn, we witness a woman that has lost her way after her husband’s death. Once she moved, she allowed herself to bloom into a beautiful character, opening up several different possibilities. As we see her at her job or recognize the hints of a budding relationship between her and Douglas,events that offer new chances and opportunities. Judging by her quote, ”our only measure of success is how we deal with failures” (Evelyn) she understands Frankl’s viewpoint on how to deal with suffering, and has developed quite a mastery of