In this episode of Leave it to Beaver, Beaver discovers what an addiction to alcoholism can do to someone through Andy, one of Beaver’s dad’s friends. Even though women were breaking boundaries during this time, this show shows Beaver’s mom as the average family where the woman stays at home to clean and take care of the children and his dad goes out and works. When this episode was made, World War II had only been over for fifteen years, and men who had fought in that war were dealing with the psychological effects that the traumas had on them. Andy was made a war veteran who did well in the battlefield but was struggling with an addiction. His coping method is shown to let the people know about the issue. A gender criticism would talk
