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Clean Out Your Junk Drawer Character Analysis
In an episode of Modern Family Season 7, Ep. 8 Clean Out Your Junk Drawer that aired on December 2, 2015 on ABC network, the episode title refers to everyone getting their feelings out. During this episode, it refers to getting emotional baggage off of their mind, it means coming clean to whoever is in their life. Gloria wins a bid at the school auction for a family seminar with author of 'Clean Out Your Junk Drawer', Debra Radcliffe. The episode started out with the three parents Mitch and Cam - a gay couple, Claire and Phil – a modern american stable family, Jay and Gloria - an interracial couple. The seminar totally gone wrong in an uncomfortable exposed secrets by their partners. At the end, everyone ends up saying too much.
Jay is pretty much retired and have been married to a sassy Colombian women way younger than him. In this episode, Jay is being portrayed as a dominant male character. Jay became mad because Gloria was insisting him to let go of his emotion and wanted to get out of what he called a ridiculous
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20 Promposal that aired on May 4, 2016 on ABC Network, Gloria, a sassy Colombian woman being portrayed as based on the creation of the gender stereotypes that society and prime time television through the years have place upon women in general and women in relationships. Gloria does not have a job and her role as a mother that stays home, clean the house, cook, and take care of their children. This stereotype presents women as weaker and inferior to men, they do not contribute to the family in terms of income, and the men have power over the household. She even went rampage to an old lady who named Auntie Alice who stole her hot sauce recipe. It is clear that women would pick a fight if someone stole their original cooking recipe. The lesson learned by Gloria in this episode is always fight for what is yours. Gloria is being depicted as a woman who is loud and expresses her feelings in unfashion

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