Cultural Analysis Of The Sitcom New Girl - 1718 Words

Breanna Foes Dr. Black English 111.02 Essay #2 October 13, 2014 Who’s That Girl? A cultural analysis of the sitcom, New Girl The traditional idea of American friendship has evolved drastically over time. In this age, no longer do you see the close group of friends chatting at the ‘Central Perk Cafà ©Ã¢â‚¬â„¢ or engaging in many misadventures in the basement of Foreman’s house, such as they did in ‘That 70’s Show’. The aged image of a group of friends and their wise, perceptive teacher, Mr. Feeney, happily standing in the halls of John Quincy Adams middle school is fading out. This overused 1970’s-1990’s idea of friendship no longer applies to most American friendships today because our culture has swayed into a more modern viewpoint, due to the†¦show more content†¦The relationships with other outside characters in the show also show innovative friend structures, such in the episode ‘Neighbors’, where the group befriends a younger, more wild groups of young adults, in which only Jess, who opens up her mind, can fit in with (Neighbors). New Girl features many quirky relationships, partially because the characters are quirky themselves. The characters in this show reflect real world struggles, and show the different ways, in which people with different personalities, deal with them. New Girl is made up of characters of different origin, beliefs, and most certainly different personalities. The LA loft where four of the characters reside consists of: Jess, a spunky 31 year old woman who is trying to find herself after a recent breakup; Nick, a sarcastic, socially inept bartender from Chicago who knows how to read emotions extremely well, he is also very emotional himself; Winston, a basketball player who just returned to the States from Latvia, where he played professional basketball. Winston is completely unaware of anything that has happened in The United States in the past two years; and Schmidt, the Jewish, overly-confident ladies’ man who thinks he has everything figured out. Another character, who doesn’t