speak unless a question is asked by her husband. She serves the dessert and cleans up afterward. The other women in this film are represented in the same manner. In the town store, women and girls are folding clothing silently as they watch what goes on around them. As a fight breaks out in the saloon that is joined to the store, the women run out and hide for their safety. Men joke around with each other as they complain about their wives taking too long to get ready to go to town. They then admit that it's worth the wait because they are so beautiful. Women in this movie are depicted as very worrisome. They discourage their husbands from fighting in a begging manner that is overdramatized. They just want everyone to get along and stay away from gruesome fights that might lead to the shooting. They act the same way towards their children as they are always worried about them staying out of trouble and getting to bed at a decent time.
             They are good mothers and wives yet that is all they are depicted as. The women in the movie Shane are flat characters and we only see one side of them thus giving the stereotypical view that women are only valuable for the services they provide for the family. The Shootist, released in 1976 only has three women characters
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