Modern Family is an ABC comedy series about The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, which is a large and blended family with Jay Pritchett at the head. Jay is married to a young, vivacious second wife Gloria, who resists his old fashioned ways. He and Gloria have a new baby of their own. This addition brings more adventures to the family along with Gloria's son, Manny. Jay has grown daughter from his first marriage, Claire. Claire is married to Phil and they have a son Luke who is in high school, a middle daughter, Alex, who is full steam ahead on the college track, and the eldest daughter, Haley, is back home figuring out her future. With the kids all-growing up, Claire would like to go back in the workforce. Jay also has a son, Mitchell, who is married to his partner Cameron. They have an adopted daughter, Lily, from Vietnam. Together these three families give an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family. (Word Count = 170)
An examination of Jay, Gloria and Mitchell will demonstrate the interpersonal concepts of how Communication can be offensive such as in sexist language, Self-disclosure and the Attraction Theory. Each concept demonstrated by the three characters discusses Jay’s relationship with his son in law Phil which demonstrates the use of sexist language whenever he has the opportunity, especially when he introduces Phil to friends. Jay’s wife Gloria was always accused of marrying Jay for his money, so she was never open about her personal life to Jay’s children which made her a little more suspect, in this episode she reveals something very personal demonstrating self-disclosure. Mitchell’s and his husband Cam demonstrated the social attraction theory when they attend a party at Mitchell’s work and support each other at every social level either work or personally. (Word Count = 134)
In the episode titled, “Yard Sale,” Manny, Jay and Gloria’s son, is having a yard sale for...