1. In Her Shoes
Family collage
created by:
Whitney Pelletier

2. • In Her Shoes • Interdependence plays a
is about a role in the film when Maggie
fallout looses her job and her sister
between to has to take her in and
sisters who support her. Rose has to
are complete adjust her life to
opposites. accommodate her sister’s
Rose is needs.
responsible
and has her
life together
while Maggie
doesn’t have
any ambitions

3. Calibration…
 Maggie and Rose have to re calibrate their
relationship often because Rose is constantly
lecturing Maggie and Maggie constantly fights
back.

4.  When looking at their
relationship and how it
relates to the dialect
theory, you can se the
different tensions that are
needed in their
relationship. There is a lot
of give and take, and
ultimately Rose can’t
handle how much she
gives and how much
Maggie takes so she kicks
her out.

5. Family Secrets…
 Maggie find out a family
secret that their Father
has been hiding. Molly
and Rose’s grandmother
had sent them birthday
cards with money in them
their whole lives and their
father hid them. Molly
and Rose’s mother
committed suicide and
their father blamed their
grandmother so he cut
her out of their lives. In
this case the secret was
toxic because it hurt the

6. Narrative…
 Maggie goes to live with their grandmother,
Ella, in Florida and she learns a lot about
their family
 Through the
narrative
theory Ella and
Maggie bond
over family
stories and their
relationship
shifts from
strangers, to
family.

7. Ella and Maggie develop communication rules as they
get to know each other. An example is a constitutive
rule that Maggie will respect her grandmother and pick
up after herself if she is going to live there.

8. Sibling relational maintenance…
When Rose learns that
Maggie is in Florida with
their Grandmother she
never knew about she
gets on a plane to go
there to meet her
Grandmother and
reconcile her relationship
with Maggie. Rose and
Maggie demonstrate
sibling relational
maintenance by
apologizing to each other
and bonding over a new

9. Relational Currency…
 Rose and Maggie
bond over a few
relational
currencies in the
film. The most
important is shoes.
Maggie borrows
Rose’s shoes and
that is a form of
their relational
currency. Another
is food. In one
scene they go to
their favorite diner
to get pie.

10. Family conflict…
Rose and Maggie’s conflict in the movie end up being a constructive
conflict and it serves as a learning experience for both of them. In the
end they are actually closer and lean how to communicate more
effectively. Instead of an ongoing family conflict it is finally in the
resolved stage.