What Is Dottie's Character

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For Dottie, she portrayed as beautiful and smart character, and she has talent on playing baseball. At the beginning of the movie, she got an offer from a scout that to try out for the upcoming baseball league, but she originally declines that. Dottie is married, her husband went to fighting overseas, and she wanted to stay home and wait for her husband comes back. She demonstrated as an ideal feminine role, and can play baseball very well. Based on her feminine role that she has a good looking and cares for her sisters and others, so she was reinforcing her role as an ideal female. At the beginning, she didn't want to try out for that professional baseball, but because of her sister, Kit wants that chance to prove her talent. Dottie wants

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