Norman Rockwell "The Runaway"

The 1950s was a time of struggle and up-rising. During this time period we start to see a counter-culture form. Norman Rockwell, in painting "The Runaway," shows a boy running away, getting talked to by an officer at a diner. But this isn't what 1950s America actually looked like. This painting overlooks the fundamental rift that was rising in America throughout the 1950s- an emerging counter culture that was not concerned with how things were in America but rather how they are.