Pleasantville

In Harmony At Home, the author maintains that high divorce rates, economic hardships, the rise of single-parent and alternative families, and a growing understanding of domestic violence have combined as forces to make many Americans reconsider their definition of family life and the “ideal” family. As the author argues, “America has begun to worry about the health of its families: even the families on TV no longer reflect the domestic tranquility of the Anderson clan. America is becoming increasingly ambivalent

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ws every detail of Pleasantville inside and out. Jennifer is given a quick tutorial by him when they go back in time, but some of the mistakes she makes cause the biggest laughs and are the sharpest social satire. For instance, as a teenager of the 1990s, Jennifer is much more sexually aware and free than teenagers or even women of the 1950s. We see this expressed humorously whenever she explains to her “Pleasantville” mother information on masturbation. As a “perfect” housewife, Betty Parker would never dream of doing something for herself. When Jennifer tells her Lover’s Lane is where people have sex, Betty asks “What’s sex?” (Ross 1998). While things may look perfect on the surface or in retrospect, life in Pleasantville’s black-and-white worlds is actually quite limiting and dull. It actually robs the residents of Pleasantville of life to try to maintain such an impossible ideal in reality. This is expressed in a humorous episode with the high school basketball team. In Pleasantville life always goes according to plan, no matter how unrealistic or dull. Even the basketball players make every shot they shoot at the basket. After one player is turned on to the pleasures of sex, the ball he shoots at the basket misses
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Approximate Word count = 1547
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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