Proper students

Rita refers to Frank's room as a "a perfect mess",because she thinks he has good taste to decorate his room.Everything is in a proper place.During the scene she tries to define and understand Frank's personality by describing the room.I think Frank has his own "mess",his life is not in perfect order at all.He has problems with alcohol and his wife.
According to Rita's view, proper students are the ones who read and study a lot.In fact,she idealizes them and Frank explain that they are not always studying as she imagines. I think that these two points are connecting,the fact that Rita find the room as a proper one has to do with the image that she has about the proper students.
What Rita doesn't want to miss is the chance to be one of them.She wants to improve her life but what she doesn't know is that she is changing Frank' life.

WHY DOES RITA WANT TO STUDY?

Rita is a hairdresser who has decided to get an education at the Open University. But what she want was not a good education to get just a better job or more pay,but an education that would open up for her a new world.There were things that she could not understand so she did not enjoy them,such as the ballet and the opera just because of ignorance.

I think that education gives us an opportunity to see that reality has to do with our own perception of the world so we must be able to see and understand news visions that education can provide us.