1950s a prominent decade in the US history is sandwiched between two decades of war-World War II in the 1940s and the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Though often hailed as “a decade of fun and frolic” (Lindop and Decapua 5) the period witnessed traumatic changes in all fields. Some historians viewed it as “the era’s pressure to conform and called it a bland decade. But it was neither a carefree nor a bland era but a decade of stark contrasts”(Lindop and Decapua 129). Works of the writers of 1950s reflected and critiqued society’s concern over communism in the American government and entertainment industries. Philosopher Hannah Arendt characterised the postwar period as one caught ‘between past and future’. To J. Ronald Oakley it is ‘a period