In the second act, the student returns, with a new wardrobe and a more confident attitude. She has brought charges of sexual harassment against the professor, based on statements and physical behavior she found offensive. He stands to lose his tenure and his beloved house. He absolutely cannot accept these losses. Yet even the movie's press kit lacks this objectivity.
Sentences fly, inner thoughts revealed and motives change with hair-pin precision.
Penetrating as best I can the illiteracy of these sentences, and others later in the synopsis, I gather that Carol was basically right, and John basically wrong. I absolutely identified with the woman's point of view. It is made apparent in the first act that Carol is failing the course because she is either incapable or unprepared. Certainly the professor should not raise her grade simply because she is unhappy about it. Nor does he make an improper sexual advance - although his awkward movement at one point is later misinterpreted by Carol, and is the basis of the complaint which may destroy his career.