Dysfunctional Family

When growing up in urban neighborhoods it has been demonstrated that families do not always live perfect lives. Due to different circumstances in life as society changes, a family can transform into a different kind of family, opposed to the happy one they were when things were at a fresh start. In the journal, Communication Studies, authors Douglas L Kelley and Debra L Sequeira said: “The last two decades have witnessed the rise of an American society sensitized to family issues,” (1). Once the family structure changed inside of America’s homes America found a way to shape the nation around the dysfunctional family, eventually creating an expectation for a family to be dysfunctional instead of America’s original perception of how a family should be. Even though the journal pinpoints a time period of two decades ago, the idea of a dysfunctional family has been present for much longer. According to Webster’s Dictionary, dysfunction is defined as “the condition of having poor and unhealthy behaviors and attitudes within

In contrast to the Great Depression, the citizens of America had more access to the goods they needed and even more things they could not have before, such as their own home. In contrast, due to high inflation the people who were considered poor during this time in the economy were still struggling with cashflow problems as they struggled to keep the money they earned from working in their pockets. In the article, Death of a Salesman: Historical Context, Elise said, “...small farmers faced hard times because of government policies that benefited larger, corporate farmers. The lowest-paid workers in the country were the migrant farm workers, with sales clerks and unskilled laborers (such as gas station attendants) not far above them,” (1). With Biff as a struggling farm worker and Happy as a person working sales it is a clear representation of how the workforce