Hubbell is offered the opportunity to adapt his novel into a screenplay, but Katie believes he is wasting his talent and encourages him to pursue writing as a serious challenge, instead. Hubbell breaks it off with Katie, but after Katie persuades him to make it work, the couple head off to California. At the same time, his serenity is disturbed by her lack of social graces and her polarizing postures. Roosevelt and is unable to understand his indifference towards their insensitivity and shallow dismissal of politics. ![]() Soon, however, Katie is incensed by the cynical jokes that Hubbell's friends make at the death of President Franklin D. They fall in love despite the differences in their backgrounds and temperaments. The two meet again in 1944, while Katie is working at an Office of War Information (OWI) radio station, and Hubbell, having served as a naval officer in the South Pacific, is trying to return to civilian life. Their attraction is evident, but neither of them acts upon it, and they lose touch after graduation. He is intrigued by her conviction and her determination to persuade others to take up social causes. ![]() While attending the same college circa 1937, she is drawn to him because of his boyish good looks and his natural writing skill, which she finds captivating, although he does not work very hard at it. Their differences are immense she is a stridently vocal Marxist Jew with strong antiwar opinions, and he is a carefree White Anglo-Saxon Protestant with no particular political bent. Told partly in flashback, The Way We Were is the story of Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford).
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