like the name of her play is literally “the importance of being earnest”. aka like the number one thing peter can’t do w mj, whether it’s his double life as spider-man being the reason he often isn’t there for the other people in his life or his feelings for mj.

the first scene we see of her play is her mentioning that another character “inspires credulity”. She gets distracted upon noticing peter is not at her play, mistakenly says “yes”, and immediately corrects her line to say “no”. it’s very representative of how she sees peter throughout the movie. she wants to keep holding out for him and keep believing in him, but at a certain point when he continuously proves to be an “empty seat” or continuously gives signals that he likes her without the willingness to commit to them, she knows that logically she can’t keep waiting for him.

the second scene we see of her play is talking to a man who is “wicked” but may have been pretending to “be good” the whole time, and the camera pans to peter as she says that. because obviously from mj’s perspective peter seems like such a jerk, but with the context of peter being spider-man, it’s so much more clear to her the burdens he holds and the things he sacrifices to live a life of “great responsibility”.

and the line she says abt hypocrisy is very important to me as well. bc even when mj finds out peter is spider-man and he rejects her yet again, she chooses to leave her wedding for peter. because now that she has the context that we as the audience have, she doesn’t think it’s fair to peter or his loved ones that he tries to push away for him to be shouldering these burdens on his own, when people like mj are willing to be there and face the future with him.

Gaston: "Everyone knows her father's a lunatic. He was in there tonight, raving-"

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