Despite the preternatural stupor converging on her son and the escalating savagery of her husband's unverified psychosis, Wendy Torrance, for much of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film The Shining, makes the best of things.  

Willfully undeterred by proliferating evidence that her family is under siege from within, Wendy maintains conviction in the dubious assurances of safety, stability, and economic prosperity guaranteed by the nuclear family and its inexplicable resilience as a pervasive (albeit impractical) American cultural paradigm.