Whenever you view a film you will realize that not everything is going to be represented on the screen. The same thing happens in melodrama, many of the films we have viewed in class have only presented us wither certain things, which ultimately poses a question, what do we not get to see? So far the stories told on the screen mostly concern straight, white females or males, with middle class to wealthy incomes, which leaves room for many different types of people that aren’t having their stories told. So far none of the films have depicted any major Black characters, the film Heartburn has a minor character that is the maid for Meryl Streep’s father, but the audience never gets to hear her story since she mostly is there for comic relief.
