The rich, aristocratic land-owning planter Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill) was opposed to Marvin""s upward strivings and wanted him to contribute by joining his father picking cotton."The imperious and cold Dr.Sloper, speaking to his sister Elizabeth, is uncertain that his homely and plain "unmarriageable" daughter Catherine - without social graces or charm and painfully shy - will ever find a suitable husband.For me, it is a religion.And one doesn""t really care to see one""s religion practiced in an atmosphere such as this.In a dissolve, the camera slides through the window into a large room filled with a monotonous criss-crossing of hundreds of rows of identical office desks and workers.