During 1950s, the United States had many changes that affected everyday Americans. The fear of communism infiltrated the government as well as the people. The women's rights movement had slowly begun to take shape. But, even though all this was happening, the 50s also featured the atomic family: a stay at home wife, a hard working husband, a son, and a daughter. This picture perfect family was always depicted as happy and content with life. Materialism and consumerism was also at a high peak in history, for instance, everybody wanted a nice, big house in the suburbs to achieve the goal of creating an atomic family. Rockwell's "The Runaway" depicted a rising counter culture within the 50s through the perfection that it wanted to achieve. His painting shows that Americans were content in the way life was and oblivious to the way life is.
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