I Love Lucy's Character Changed

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How Life Has Changed Over the Past Sixty-Five Years While watching the compilation of shows, the thing that stood out to me the most was how the female characters in the shows were being treated and portrayed. As the shows became more modern, the women were portrayed as stronger individuals who were much less reliant on the male characters. In the 1952 episode of I Love Lucy, Lucy’s husband assumes that she is stealing from people because she was in possession of two hundred dollars in cash. I believe he thought this because at that period in time, women, for the most part, did not earn their own money and relied heavily on their husbands financially. Nowadays, a woman could acquire a great amount of money, greatly exceeding two hundred dollars, and most people would not question where she had gotten it from because more women sustain themselves fiscally in present times than in 1952. Some years later, in 1976, Edith Bunker from All in the Family is distraught and heartbroken after her husband, Archie, kisses another woman. She is depicted as vulnerable and helpless as she flees her home saying that Archie was the only thing she could ever count on. Several …show more content…
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