Norman Rockwell's "The Runaway"

The 1950s were a time of great change, both in culture and perspective. The American people were not all best friends, and America was no longer on top of the world. We were at war with Korea, and there were a lot of issues in society at that time. However, Norman Rockwell's painting "The Runaway" forgets all this. His painting sugar coated the American society in the 1950's and left the social uprisings behind. "The Runaway" overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950s- an emerging counter culture that was not concerned with how things were, but how they are.