Patricia Pryor
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| American Dreams character | |
| Patty Pryor | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Brown |
| Eye color | Blue |
| Portrayed by | Sarah Ramos |
Patricia "Patty" Pryor (born c. April, 1951) is a fictional character from American Dreams. She is the younger sister of Meg and JJ Pryor, and the older sister of Will Pryor. She is notably intelligent and speaks in a monotone with a matching matter-of-fact attitude. She is portrayed by Sarah Ramos. A compulsive reader and a straight-A student, she often has to be told by her father not to read books at the dinner table. She even chose to attend summer school in the summer of 1966. Her interests include literature and science.
Though her role has steadily increased since the first season, Patty remains a secondary character. She is rarely involved in the main plot, but she tends to dominate subplots, such as one where she cheated on her science fair project and ended up feeling guilty for it.
Due to the lack of science and logic behind it and the ardent faith of her father, Patty is clearly confused about the place of religion. In the episode "Act of Contrition," Patty got in trouble with the authorities of her Catholic school for leanings towards Atheism (she didn't think it was scientifically possible for Jesus to perform all his miracles — "they didn't even have penicillin yet,") but much later, when JJ was MIA in Vietnam, she tried to be as good as possible with the hope that she might become a Saint and thereby have the power to bring her brother home.
Patty often has trouble making friends because of her competitive attitude and academic overachievments. She is notably shy around boys. Patty is clearly an embarrassment to Meg as she has been reluctant, to say the least, to be associated with her. Patty embarrassed Meg after being invited to appear as a guest dancer on American Bandstand (where Meg is a regular dancer). During the Rate-a-Record segment, Patty made a rambling attack on the Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction", which brought ridicule from Patty's classmates.
The series ended in the summer after Patty's sophomore year at East Catholic (she skipped a grade). She was to begin serving as the team manager for the football team at the start of her junior year. Her graduation would take place in 1968, which viewers will not see due to NBC's decision to cancel the show.
In the un-aired 12 minute series epilogue (set in 1969), it is revealed that Patty achieved her goal to attend Radcliffe College in Massachusetts.
