The Freedom from Want painting created by Norman Rockwell is the third installation of four oil paintings used to illustrate Franklin D. Rosevelt’s Four Freedoms. I initially choose to write about this painting since it evoked a feeling of happiness and pleasure. In this painting, there is an American Family, composed of 3 generations, gathered in their dining room to have Thanksgiving dinner and it’s apparent that the family is cheerful. The painting as it relates to the government advertising slogan “Freedom from Want” argues that each American person should be thankful for the freedoms granted to this nation and enable us to live out our God-given, natural right to freedom and happiness. When I first viewed the painting it did evoke
