abby+reflection+3

This page represents the ideal America, what Americans feel that they themselves need to be and what other people around them need to be. In the book __The Bluest Eye__ Pecola feels that the only way to be pretty is to have blue eyes, and many other people during this time period felt that having blue eyes and blond hair made you pretty. So, these are some pictures of the ideal beauty, what one has to look like to be the ideal American. But apart from looking like an ideal American there is a way to act like one. There is also a clip that teaches an instructional video on how to interact with one's family, all of the people in the video are stiff, unemotional, and perfect. Ideally, everyone in America was having dinner like the people in the clip, which just was not possible. People wanted to achieve a perfect America, an ideal America, but it just wasn't possible. Another way people tried to create a perfect America was through the suburbs, such as Levittown, where all the houses looked the same, all the lawns were manicured, and everything looked spotless. The perfect American had to look, act, and live in a role that no one could live up to during the 1950s and even now. People still have this idea of the ideal, perfect, and utopian America, but that can never be reached.