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Brandon Volz
SRC 399
September 22, 2003
Traditional Fifties Families
The movie The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Wait Till Next Year, offer a look into the American family psyche during the 1950’s. ... The similarities would include the father being the breadwinner for the family, the mother being a full-time homemaker, and households having more than one child. ... Today, most families are dual income families, where both the mother and the father work to support the family. ... So he accepts the job, and puts his own personal ethics aside so his family can live a better life. In Wait Till Next Year, Doris’s father works long hours so his family has food on the table, and clothes on their back. ... A great example of how money can take over a family’s life is Tom’s new boss, who constantly put money in front of family and now has to deal with the consequences. ...
There were many forces that threatened to break up each family’s culture. The forces that threatened the family’s culture would include neighborhood shops going out of business, the Cold War, McCarthy hearings, and the beginning years of television. The world was changing around Doris and Tom, and I thought the book, mainly, did a nice job of foreshadowing the events that would change the 1950’s American family culture.
Approximate Word count = 1421
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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