"(A) Nuclear family was where people could try to satisfy their long-pent-up desires for a more stable marriage, a decent home, and a chance to really enjoy their children" (Coontz, 59). What makes a family ideal or popularly called "nuclear"? In the movie Pleasantville, there is a character named David (Tobey Maguire) who wants to have this nuclear family and believes he has found the perfect family on a television show titled "Pleasantville." David believes an ideal family is like the one he watches on television. It has a mother and a father, two children, there is no conflict and that everyone has good morals. David's views change as he comes to the realization "Pleasantville" is not a perfect society, and every generation has it problems.
             This idea of wanting a perfect family comes from watching this television show called "Pleasantville." His family is made up of a Mother, Sister, and himself (maybe a father that we do not see), which is not that bad, but he does not think it makes him happy. David/Bud wanted to escape his family because he thought there was a better one for him in "Pleasantville". Like in the autobiography "An Indian Story" Jack "ran away from home one day"(Jack, 110). They both tried to escape to what they thought would be a better family for them. David loves it at first, but later this nuclear family is not what he thought it would be. Jack of "An Indian Story" is trying to get away from his family, which ironically are a mother, father, and two children. He had a happy and successful life living with his Aunt Greta; "(he) made it out of high school, and going to college"(Jack, 110). Is there really such a thing as an ideal family? David and Jack both find out that ideal families !
             are different things to different people.
             David also thinks there should not be conf
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