 She also seems to gain some insight into the restlessness and self-destructive impulses of the younger generation.In a related incident, she tries to get one of her female students to see the value of continuing her education (At the end of the film, Jean is told that the girl has dropped out of the Sixth Form to run away to London, presumably with a boyfriend).Jean is likewise affected by the diminished hopes of her contemporaries, who bemoan the state of the country under Thatcherism.