YMMV / The Moving Finger

• Values Dissonance: An interesting case that goes both ways. Jerry takes Megan out for a trip to London, shopping, dinner, and dancing. This means that they are out together for most of the night, and their return close to the morning scandalizes the village of Lymstock, the general opinion being that Jerry now must marry Megan to make "an honest woman out of her." Nowadays, spending a night out with a man is definitely not objectionable and does not ruin a girl; however, a man pushing a girl he likes into changing her hairstyle and clothes and all that is quite objectionable indeed, while in the book that part is fine.
• Values Resonance: Much of the Conversational Troping between the characters about the problem of 'poison-pen' letters, and how the 'no smoke without fire' factor among the public about scandals could drive their victims to suicide, now feels newly fitting considering the modern issue of trolling and cyberbullying on social media even if the “poison-pen letters were actually a smokescreen in this particular case.