Sure 1950's WASP family life may seem claustrophobic to outsiders who place weight of human life in the domestic. But maybe if life outside the home taken up by global struggle against the Soviets, space program, building computers etc., you may want orderly/peaceful home life...
The hateful de Ni*ro full of the same resentments when he made The Good Shepherd...in which he wanted to collapse James Jesus Angleton, one of most colorful and brilliant spymasters, to a psychodrama about family life (and thereby exonerate dumb Kennedy for Bay of Pigs)...