The Morning of the Bride story
Helen Brewster is frustrated that her boyfriend Philip Pryor has been stalling their wedding for years on the excuse that his mother is unwell. When they finally get married, Helen learns that Philip's mother has been dead for years, but Philip in his insanity believes that she is still alive. Directed by: Arthur Hiller. Story by: Neil S. Broadman, Kathleen Hite.
13 total · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| engaged couple | major | Helen and Philip had promised each other to get married but Helen became increasingly suspicious as Philip kept prolonging introducing her to his mother. |
| infatuation | major | The story began with illustrations of how besotted Helen was with Philip. |
| mental illness | major | In the end, it turned out that Philip was insane and was all along behaving as if his long dead mother was alive and well. |
| mother and son | major | The story purports to concern Philip and his mother, thought it transpires that the mother is fictive. |
| mother-in-law and daughter-in-law | major | The story concerns Helen's attempts to get to know her future, then present, mother-in-law. |
| what if I found out that a loved one was not the person I thought they were | major | The story showed us how Helen gradually came to learn that her fiancee was somewhat insane. |
| coping with a loved one being in peril | minor | Helen fretted when Philip told her that he was about to go off to fight in the Korean War. |
| husband and wife | minor | At the conclusion of the story, Helen and Philip were married. |
| master and servant | minor | Pat was Helen's maidservant and confident, it appeared. |
| physics | minor | In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock stated that some rocks were actually just clusters of atoms. |