Why I Don T Understand Ferris Bueller

All teenagers go through a phase in which they think that their parents don't’ understand anything about them. Most of the time teenagers that think this have a misguided thinking and it turns out that their parents actually do understand them. Unlike most teenagers, Ferris Bueller and his sister and right in believing this. Their parents are always working, aren’t aware of their schooling, and also keep their kids from relationships (and even aren’t familiar with their dating lives). These, along with a few other examples, are reasons as to why Ferris’ parents do not understand him and his sister. The most obvious example happens very early in the movie. The encounter happens between Mr. Rooney and Katie Bueller in which Mr. Rooney is telling the mother about Ferris’ attendance. “I don’t understand [...] This is all news to me [...] 9 times? [...] I don’t remember him being sick 9 times” (Hughes). Mrs. Bueller says these various lines while talking to Mr. Rooney about Ferris’s attendance. It’s very
When Sloane, Ferris, and Cameron were in the taxi cab Ferris’ father so conveniently was in the car next to them. He turned, saw them, then did a double take and saw only Sloane sitting in the seat by herself. I know sunglasses may make it harder to identify a person, but not impossible. If that were me and I had thought that I had seen someone that vaguely looked like Ferris and then saw them disappear and see his girlfriend sitting in the car I would think that something was suspicious (Hughes). Instead this shows that Ferris’ dad doesn’t know him at all because he doesn’t even know who he’s going out with. There was also the brief encounter that Jeanie had with the guy at the police station. Her mother obviously despised the guy that she was kissing at the time. Now this is something that all mothers do, but still Jeanie is old enough to be able to make her own