Cheerful Robots

According to C. Wright Mills, Americans during the 1950s were Cheerful Robots. Using his excerpt, what you've read in the text, and heard in class, why is that description fitting (don't just repeat or rephrase what's in the Mills article).

Americans during the 1950s were stuck on the idea of perfection. They wanted to live the perfect life. Americans lived in cookie-cutter houses, had nuclear families, and were happy all the time. At least that's what they longed for. There were few differences from one family to another on the surface. Most Americans worked hard to maintain their happy, perfect images. They were all the same. The "perfect" family consisted of a husband, wife, son and daughter, or just immediate family members. The husband worked while the wife stayed home and did domestic work. The house they lived in was in a neighborhood along with other houses that looked the same. Inside the house were all kinds of appliances and material things to make them "happy". Outside of the house were nice cars sitting in the driveway when they husband returned home from a hard day of work. If there was any unhappiness or imperfection, Americans did not let it show. They had routines that they practiced on a daily basis. When Mills talks about Americans in the 1950s being "Cheerful Robots", he is not exaggerating by any means.