The Graduate

In Norman Rockwell's The Graduate, I think that Norman put the student in front of the paper to relate the era and the major events going on at the time. In my opinion, the headlines show how scary and dangerous the real world can be. Atomic weapons, inflation, and job woes are just some of the things that the young graduate must now face. I think the posture of the graduate signifies the realization that his simple life that he had enjoyed during school has now come to an end. He must go out in to the cold, and very real, world where he has to deal with problems he had not had to face before. We are fortunate these days, as recent high school graduates, that all we have to worry about after graduating is going to college. The majority of the high school population does not have to worry about going out in to the work force for another couple of years. Very few of us are completly dependent on ourselves, unlike the graduate who will soon be.