Come Back, Little Sheba | Historical Context
Post-World War II America was a period marked by the shift of populations from cities to suburbs. Thanks to the G.I. Bill (which provided government funding for the college education of men exiting the armed services), thousands of men who would never have been able to go to college found the way suddenly made easier A building boom meant that those better educated men marry and the families could buy the new houses being built on tracts all across suburban America.
The decade also marked the beginning of a period of domestic perfection. Television would turn the postwar ideal of...
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