Kit is a selfish brat
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SataiDelen — 9 years ago(April 09, 2016 07:24 PM)
Yes, Dottie dropped the ball on purpose. Of course she did! After her acrobatic act doing the splits for the photographer to catch the ball, and her holding on to the ball when another player from another team slammed into her, you just can't have any doubts that she dropped it on purpose (and Jimmy knows it).
But as to Kit being a selfish brat? No, I don't see it that way. I see a little sister forever in her older sister's shadow. First at home on the farm, and then out on the road with the team. Dottie is the older sister/first born who "has it all." A great husband, her parents love and devotion, a first-rate ball player at a time when sports was severely a male dominated field.
Dottie didn't even want to try out for the team initially. And I don't believe for a minute that it was for the reason that she tried to claim when she and Kit were in the barn. She very much loved to play, but she also believed strongly that it was her responsibility to help out on the farm to give her parents a break, and to do her duty as a housewife and be a "good little girl/wife" which is what was expected of women at the time. But when Kit begs her to go, I fully believe that she felt it was her chance to do what she really wanted for once, and used Kit as an excuse to go.
Kit saw it as her chance to make something of herself and get out from under her sister's shadow. And she calls Dottie out on it when she's packing for the train after finding out she's been traded. Dottie tries to claim that she didn't even want to be there, yet refused to answer her sister's question, "Then why are you still here!?" It's because she refuses to admit (as she's always refused to admit) that she knows she's as good as everyone tells her she is, AND the fact that deep down, she loves to play and really does want to be there. And I think she refuses to admit that she wants to be there because a part of her feels guilty for it. Not because she's taking something away from Kit, but because she feels she's not supposed to like baseball. She's supposed to be content being a wife and doing what's responsible, not what she wants to do.
So she selfishly stays, taking the limelight away from Kit who in reality has nothing but baseball. If she goes back home, she'll be miserable because her parents will continue to see her as just the unwanted second child (and not good for much in their eyes), and her community will never see her as anything other than "Dottie's little sister." So again, baseball is her one chance to make a name for herself and make people see her as somebody, but it won't happen so long as she was stomped on by her sister.
Dottie finally acknowledges this when she sees people rooting for Kit at the World Series even before she decided to drop the ball. Her coach is supportive of her, her teammates like her and support her. She's finally getting her chance, and Dottie sees that if she takes that chance away from her again, it could destroy Kit this time.
So, while so many people berate Dottie for doing what she did by dropping the ball, I applauded her for finally stepping aside and letting her sister have the chance to shine for once. Did she let her team down? In a way, yes, but she knows that they'll get over it (and none of them knew she dropped it on purpose. Only Jimmy suspected/knew), and they'd have another chance the following year. Dottie then went back to Oregon with her husband and resumed her life as a wife and later a mother, letting that one season of baseball slide away into her memories, and likely tried not to think about it.
And she fights going to the Baseball Hall of Fame/team reunion because once again, she refuses to admit to anyone and especially herself that she DID love playing and it was probably one of the best, if not the best years of her life.
So, in my eyes, Dottie is the selfish one until she makes the decision to finally step aside and let her sister take the much needed spotlight, not Kit.
That's my two cents, and how I feel about Kit and Dottie.
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myndchanger — 9 years ago(April 16, 2016 01:43 PM)
I don't agree. Dottie liked baseball and was good at it but she didn't need it. Kit did and talked Dottie into going. When Kit asked why she was still there, Dottie was still there because she, like so many responsible people, felt a need to fulfill her commitment to the team. She should not have dropped the ball. Kit's only commitment to anyone or anything was herself. When Dottie agreed that Kit was "throwing grapefruits out there" Kit got mad. She didn't care if the team lost, just that she got to stay on the pitchers mound.
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bjamzilla — 9 years ago(May 13, 2016 01:55 PM)
Kit was a bit bratty, but understandably so. She felt like the ugly duckling all her life, and here Dot was stealing all the thunder, even though she never even wanted it to begin with. And Dottie was gonna be fine. She already had an adoring husband and a taste of being a star ball player. I think she knew she didn't want it that much. She wanted to start a family and if that meant giving her bratty, but beloved sister a win, then what did it matter if Kit didn't deserve it? It was nice, and sisterly and it probably made her feel like she was finally as good as Dottie.(Which may have helped her to be more self-assure in life.) Sure, Dottie could've also just told her that. But this was better. This allowed the public to know and cheer her on, which I think was all Kit wantedthe support and affection of other people that seemed to always go to Dot. I think its hard being a younger sibling, especially when there is no one there to build up your self esteem. Typically, I believe it's the parent's job, but I think us older siblings need to throw em a bone every now and then and I think that's all this movie is showing. No there's no manual saying we gotta take care of our siblings, but we do have to love them, and this was just Dot showing love.
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forever_trinity03-42-678416 — 9 years ago(May 14, 2016 12:06 PM)
Without a doubt Kit is immature,jealous, and grossly insecure. Dottie was wiser, smarter, and a far more talented as a baseball player. Kit was threatened by her. Even though Dottie was never a show off or a person who bragged or intentionally put Kit down, Kit always accused her of holding her back. She was always laying her failures and insecurities at Dottie's feet. As far as I'm concerned Dottie dropped that ball on purpose out of pity for Kit because she valued her sister's love and happiness above her own personal ambition. What's even more disgusting is that after calling Dottie a bitch, throwing a ball past her head and shattering a window, and telling Dottie to leave her alone, Kit all of a sudden, after getting what she wants, wants Dottie to stay in the league. me rolls eyes.
I'm the youngest of four girls and never felt like I was in competition with my sisters or felt like I was in my sister's shadows. Their successes were my successes and their failures and disappointments my failures and disappointments. One sibling and I both went into the medical field. I never once felt like I had to get through school and pass my boards because my sister did. In fact her success was an inspiration to me. Kit in my opinion has severe insecurity and is in need of therapy and Dottie dropped the ball. The End. -
thelastpoet05 — 9 years ago(July 31, 2016 02:09 PM)
I'm the youngest of four girls and never felt like I was in competition with my sisters or felt like I was in my sister's shadows. Their successes were my successes and their failures and disappointments my failures and disappointments.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that your parents made sure that you all felt loved equally, and didn't put you all in competition with one another or make one of you feel like the golden child. If I'm right, then your dynamic wasn't the same as that of Dottie and Kit.
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SteveResin — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 06:13 PM)
Yep, Kit is supremely annoying in an otherwise wonderful film. Whiny and self pitying with an enormous sense of entitlement. In all honesty they could have cut her story out of the film entirely and just had Dottie join the team on her own and it would have worked just as well.
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