Word of the Day. Meanings Meanings. Mojo Jojo. Nigel Thornberry. Examples Origin Usage. Fictional Characters dictionary Mrs. Robinson What does Mrs. Robinson mean?
What's hot. Where does Mrs. Robinson come from? Examples of Mrs. Robinsons on the march for men young enough to be their sons — is demeaning. Popular now. Who uses Mrs. Note This is not meant to be a formal definition of Mrs. Coo coo ca-choo, Mrs. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? In the film Anne Bancroft is Mrs. Robinson, a bored socialite housewife who seduces the much younger Dustin Hoffman.
She represents the confusion the older generation has brought into the world, from the artificiality of their vision to the emptiness of their marriages. She is responsible for the corruption of Benjamin, a confused but idealistic year-old; the hypocrisy of the existence of the adult is contrasted with the comparative purity of the young. Robinson is an alcoholic , stuck in an empty marriage.
Or it might refer to the fact that her daughter was not conceived in holy matrimony, but on the backseat of a car. The song contains a famous reference to sports star Joe DiMaggio even if he had already retired from baseball. In , he married Marilyn Monroe, but they divorced a year later. However, he never said anything negative about her, got her released from a mental hospital in , and asked her to remarry him in order to protect her from what he thought was dragging her towards self-destruction.
When she died, he mourned her and honoured her memory by sending flowers to her grave every week for decades. For those who've only seen the homage to the film done in Wayne's World 2 tell us you've seen it— wasn't that long ago, right? Luckily, his parents' friends are willing to help; one tells him the future lies in plastics; another wants to sleep with him.
Benjamin initially turns down Mrs. Robinson, but eventually cinema's first and greatest cougar snags her prey. In the midst of their affair, Benjamin falls in love with Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine, and sets his mind on marrying her. Robinson, horrified that her innocent pride-and-joy might marry the now-corrupted Benjamin, forbids it, forcing the suddenly clear-eyed young man to drive thousands of miles, pound on church windows, and battle groomsmen with a cross in order to win his bride.
Throughout the film, we are reminded of the mess the older generation has made of the world, from the artificiality of their vision—"one word: plastics"—to the emptiness of their marriages. Robinson epitomizes it all. Worn out and a drunk, possessing everything but feeling almost nothing, her only source of satisfaction is her daughter. But Elaine is also her darkest secret: conceived not in holy matrimony, but rather in the backseat of a Ford.
Perhaps most wickedly, Mrs. Robinson is not content to wallow alone in her misery. Instead, she's driven to corrupt the young Benjamin, a confused but idealistic year-old. Yet as much as this film celebrates the comparative purity of the young, the future these kids envision is pretty conventional.
Once Benjamin comes out of his fog, all he can think about is getting married. He doesn't want to run off to a commune or shack up with Elaine in some hippie love den.
He wants to get married. Within his fairy-tale planning, he even builds in time to get blood tests. Paul Simon's song makes only a limited appearance in the film. The version of "Mrs. Robinson" that was released as a single and included on Simon and Garfunkel's album Bookends told us much more about the musical Mrs.
Robinson than we learned in the movie. For example, the Mrs. Robinson of song spent some time in an asylum or rehab, but a verse at the center of the track speaks to the hypocrisy that sits at the core of Mrs.
Robinson's film-and-song existence:. Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes. Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes. It's a little secret, just the Robinsons' affair. Most of all you've got to hide it from the kids. It's not completely clear to which secret the song refers. It could be the fact that Mrs. Robinson is an alcoholic and stuck in an empty marriage. Or maybe the lines refer to the premarital conception of her daughter.
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