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Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

Lucy Jordan is set in my opinion in the 1960's, where women were house wives and did nothing else but "clean the house for hours or rearrange the flowers". This already is not typical of women today. Women today have jobs and are independent. Women in those days were portrayed as staying at home and being a homemaker. They cleaned the house, washed the clothes and dishes, did the cooking, and took care of the kids when they got home from school or when they stayed home from school for being sick. Women also did most of the shopping except when the bags got to heavy. Today, women are much more than homemakers. Women are working for publishing companies, advertising agencies, as well as producers and directors. Not only do they have the work to deal with at the office, but they also have the work at home but not so exclusively. Women are busier individuals today than during the sixties. I don't believe women today are very much like the women of Lucy Jordan's time. The closet life of a woman in the 21st century to a woman in the sixties in my opinion would be a lady of the elite middle class. A woman who does not work; firstly because she does not need to as her husband would bring in all the money and secondly because they are still living in the traditions of their ancestors who might of only given their servants orders, therefore not even cleaning the house but ordering for the house to be cleaned.
What I would class as a typical day for many women in the sixties underneath the façade they showed to the world is the whole ballad of Lucy Jordan. Many woman put on a front to everyone else but never realised everyone else was probably doing the very same. This would lead women to depression. They would think that they were alone in the world; the only ones who felt bored and like their life was completely mundane. When women felt depressed they would usually go to the doctor who would prescribe them Valium, meaning that there was a century of women...

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