1. Why did they create the character of Seth and then have him leave without ever being mentioned again? Did this not bother anyone else?

2. Why does Mary have a mirror in her room at the blind school? Who in the world puts mirrors in the dormitory of a blind school? Did the screenwriters not think that through?

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ohno:

Seth was created to make us pity Mary even more. She was just starting to bloom as a woman and Seth was one of the better-looking guy's Mary was pursued by. I think it was just to make us see how much the blindness was going to cost Mary.

Not sure the mirror was there other to than to make the students feel more normal? I would have broke the mirror though if I had found it in my room.

That's a good point. I always thought Seth was just a loose plotline that went nowhere and should have been left on the cutting floor. But having Mary be in the middle of a casual romance when she loses her vision does show how much she has to lose because the young men are buzzing around her like bees around a hive and very few of them would be willing to marry her when she goes blind and even if one of them did she would always wonder if it was out of pity rather than love which might poison the relationship. One thing's for sure. Seth had the decency to break it off with Mary when he visited her and she lost her temper. He could see she was suffering and didn't need a romantic relationship to deal with while she was getting accustomed to the new normal.

My only complaint with the way they did Mary's growing up story was I wished they had found a nicer way to tie John Jr. up. If they had to cut him out of the narrative because of cast and management issues maybe they could have him die of an illness in Chicago and write a letter where he swears his undying love for Mary, instead of making the audience hate his guts. And then they could have Adam be a blind schoolteacher who could see, because it's really hard to buy the idea of two blind people keeping a sighted child under control.