Love Lucy" Analysis

I Love Lucy was an outstanding 1950's sitcom that ultimately supported 1950's non-threatening gender roles. Though the show differed from other 1950's sitcoms in that Lucy was a 40+-year-old physical comedian married to a Cuban, Lucy still supported the mainstream idea that a wife should be happy at home, doing housework and subservient to her husband. Lucy's attempts to leave the mainstream by seeking a career in "show business" against her husband's wishes or seeking a job "outside the home" generally ended in comical disaster and sent the clear message that Lucy and her audience were better off in their traditional gender roles.

Lucy's character is quite a bit like other TV housewives of the 1950s in some respects, yet quite different in other respects. June Cleaver (Gelman, 2012), Kathy Thomas (Plath, Make room for daddy, 2008), Margaret Anderson (Plath, Father knows best (TV series) - DVD...
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