Cheerfull Robots

According to C. Wright Mills, Americans during the 1950s were Cheerful Robots. Using his excerpt, what you've read in the text, and heard in class, why is that description fitting (don't just repeat or rephrase what's in the Mills article).

After the war, many GI's were given checks. Money they had never had was handed to them to build a life. Many Americans took advantage of William Levitt's idea of suburbia and began lives in "Levittowns". The perfect American family exploded as husbands, wives, and children, preferably one son and one daughter, lived in cookie-cutter houses, with the perfect appliances inside and the perfect cars outside. All the homes were the same, there was no destination, perfecting the nickname C. Wright Mills had given Americans. The husband did his part by going to work each day while the wife attended to her domestic duties inside the home.

Keeping in mind that America was just victorious in the tragic world war, Americans worked hard to build and maintain the perfect American way. If there be any unhappiness inside or outside of the home, it was not to be shown. If the American wife was disappointed in her duties, she was simply prescribed the medication to make her happy again. Any feeling outside of contentment and bliss was highly discouraged and thought to be unpatriotic. The "Housewive Syndrome" was easily cured with the highly consumable tranquilizers like Miltown and Valium. They felt very isolated and helpless, yet it was not to be expressed.

The daily family routine of mother staying home while waving goodbye to her husband as he had his independent job, returning to a hot meal on the table was the norm of the 1950s and it definitely proves C. Wright Mills' reference of Americans as Cheerful Robots. It was the same for the majority of the country.