History Characters / MrsAmericaTheMainCharacters

->'''Played By:''' Ari Graynor

* ShesGotLegs: One of her most outstanding features and one that her money guy reduces her to as an explanation for why he hired her years before.

* BourgeoisBumpkin: She feels threatened by the demands of Civil Rights activists like Flo Kennedy and Shirley Chisholm (who are speaking on behalf of prisoners of color in Attica) and by the Women's Movement questioning a patriarchy that ensured privileges for women like herself (affluent, wife, suburban, religious), even demanding rights for lesbians and reproductive issues. The following quote has her take Alice's simile for delegate committees as similar to the Pillsbury Bake-Off Contest
-->'''Rosemary''': And we have to get pro-family bakers, or we'll be stuck with with a bunch of liberal recipes in our cookbook and force-fed ERA brownies, abortion cookies, and lesbian pie till Kingdom come.

* FemaleMisogynist: Pretty much one of the worst in STOP ERA, aside from her StayInTheKitchen and holier than thou {{Housewife}} image and values, she can tend towards being very judgmental and even cruel about the shortcomings of Alice and Pamela, who are supposed to be her friends.

* BourgeoisBumpkin: A sympathetic example, Alice is a nice, sheltered, affluent housewife who has only a high school education and doesn't feel smart or confident enough to participate in the larger world with men and more accomplished women, that and the fact more marginalized women are demanding recognition for their work and lives in society threatens Alice to think she will lose her privileges. Part of her CharacterDevelopment is seeing that Queer people aren't the enemy and being more sensitive to the struggles of Women of Color.

* NiceHat: As in RealLife, she always is seen wearing a hat on the advice of her mother who told her to wear a hat and gloves at the law firm so she wouldn't be mistaken for a secretary.

* {{Meganekko}}: She is a very beautiful woman who wears large aviator glasses.

* {{Meganekko}}: It isn't as remarked on like with Gloria but she is a nice looking woman who wears glasses.

* LadyInAPowerSuit: As the series goes on, she takes to this style, cementing her transformation from a judgemental housewife to a powerhouse MoralGuardian.
* {{Meganekko}}: She is an attractive woman with glasses.

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: To a T (the way she sleeps in bed). She is a judgemental MoralGuardian who puts up a front of being a meek housewife, while being an AlphaBitch to Alice and Pamela when Phyllis isn't around, having a SmallNameBigEgo and NoSympathy, and being small-minded and prejudiced in general.

* FemininityFailure: Part of her breakdown in "Houston" given that she is a young mom who is over her head and in an abusive marriage, she feels pathetic when older housewives chide her for not doing something right (like baking bread or wanting to formula feed her kids) and is helpless since her husband throws a temper antrum at her.

* InnocentBetaBitch: She is Phyllis's "booster" of her work and is very close to her, but she lacks Phyllis's cruelty and snootiness.

* FoxNewsLiberal: She's a registered Republican who starts out in the series as a Nixon appointee but she is also a progressive feminist who cares about issues surrounding integration, day care, social security, and health care for women and grows incensed with Phyllis's SlutShaming attitudes towards the sexual harassment dealt with by secretaries on Capitol Hill. Justified, as during the time the series' is set, the parties hadn't yet polarized and there were many Liberal Republicans of Jill's ilk.

* MagnificentBitch: She is unsympathetic to the viewers but one cannot help but marvel on how she is able to persuade things to go her way and organize a bunch of religious and right-wing housewives into her own army...and then changing the American political landscape (for better or for worse) within a decade.

* AmbitionIsEvil: She starts out very narrow-minded and reactionary in the beginning but more pleasant in manner and claiming to want nothing more than to be a homemaker; later in the series she grows more ambition after being made head of the STOP ERA chapter in Illinois and goes directly for influential roles in the counter-movement and even to become a delegate at the convention and then writes a book. In RealLife, she ended up appointed to the Reagan Administration under William Bennett.

* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: The matronly looking Thomson is depicted by the usually girlish and attractive looking Melanie Lynskey (albeit frumped down for the role).

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Whoo boy. She is egocentric, frustrated in her unfullfilled ambition, a MoralGuardian, very critical of women who don't fit her narrow worldview, and explains her actions as "defending the American Family".