They are no longer the important aspect of his life as all focus shifts to himself to become important to others who seemingly don’t care about him. Helen’s response to a company friend stating, “I know how much you will miss him,” with “I already have” shows the significance of her and the family moving on from Phil and his workaholic self. Later, while attending Phil’s funeral, the company president asks, “Who’s been working the hardest?” and provides the audience a sense that nobody noticed Phil’s hard work and dedication to the company, making Phil appear invisible to the people he was intending to impress. By doing this, Goodman illustrates the
‘Using the Case Study provided at the end of the module Identify and explain the Client’s issues and devise a Course of treatment for him, taking Into account any ethical issues’ Introduction In this assignment I intend to explore the issues raised in the case study provided which is about a 45-year-old single man. The case study highlights Mr X’s reservations about applying for a promotion, his concerns about his mother’s lack of respect for him whilst picking on him, also he believes his colleagues see him as boring and he feels unable to marry his girlfriend as he can’t offer her anything, also she may say “no” He is described as a gentle and caring man who worries about other people might think of him. The fact that he has now asked for help suggests he is somewhat aware that he has issues and accepts that he needs to address them, especially if he is going to change his future both in his career and in his personal life. For the purposes of this study I will assume he is the one wanting the help and it isn’t his girlfriend or mother pushing him to move forward in his life and improve his career prospects. I would like to ask if Mr X suffering from depression?
It shows what a poor and miserable life Phil shared with his family. This sense of pity is illustrated through Goodman’s specifically worded phrases such as when Phil’s “dearly beloved” eldest son asks his neighbors what his father was like and the “embarrassment” it caused. When Phil’s daughter “has nothing to say” to each other, and how his third son “only board here.” Phil’s consumption of his work overshadowed the love of his family and friends.
English 215 Both Wily from death of sale man and Gregor from the metamorphosis are men that feel worn down and exhausted from their jobs. In this essay I will compare and contrast how each exhibits the wear and tears of the working life and how it affect their families. By using sources and examples that discuss the America relationship with their jobs. Wily Loman who has been working as a salesman for long time. Started having bad luck and in order to dare with his failures in life, he started thinking about his past and it seem that he doesn't know what's real or fake in life.
When I can’t stand on my legs, perhaps I shall have a chance” (740). This quote demonstrates his dedication to his work as he claims he will have to be literally unable to move before he will take a break. Later in the story, as he goes about his rounds, he is described as a “mere hired assistant” and that he is a “slave to the country-side” (742). It is revealed that his job wears him out, because it is “nothing but work, drudgery, constant hastening from dwelling to dwelling” and he doesn’t like the town where he lives and works. The narrator states, “He grumbled, he said he hated the hellish hole.” Furthermore, he feels superior to the working class people he serves, thinking of them as “rough, inarticulate, powerfully emotional men and women” (743).
In a piece entitled “The Company Man,” Ellen Goodman uses a methodical and almost “corporate” tone to describe the life and death of Phil, a cog in the machine, a typical businessman working himself slowly into the grave. Goodman’s irony showcases the lack of importance which one individual has to a company as a whole. One of the primary rhetorically effective methods Goodman uses in her essay is repetition, employed with the emphasis of Phil’s death and various points on his life. Goodman also frequently uses numbers in the place of words to give her piece a further tone of corporate austerity and efficiency. In order to interest her reader in Phil’s family, career, and life overall, she employs extensive irony, repetition, and use of numbers to give readers the feel of a corporate memo, and properly convey the true irony of corporate life.
Through a dangerous circumstance, Tom Benecke risks his life trying to fill his empty pockets; however, he learns what he should have been filling his pockets with all along. Tom Benecke is a tall, lean, dark-haired man who is more concerned about success at work than the truly important things in his life such as his wife. This character was interesting to me because of the lessons he learns about life and himself throughout the story. I do not like Tom's selfishness and his obsession with work, but in the end of the story I came to admire the choices he makes to change himself. A friend of mine reminds me of Tom because she always puts other things before her family.
Another major factor that I think a man should have is tenacious. A man should able bear the burden and do not give up easily when he face any kind of problems or difficulties. For instance, when a man loses his job during the economic recession, and cannot find the job. He should try his best to find the job even though it is not related to his occupation. In “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”, Sanders explore the difference between men and women from diverse perspective.
She talked about what a smart and out spoken man her father was, and a person that her family had always looked up to, she saw the life and the goodness that her father had in him starting to fade away at the end. It got to a point where he could not read or even do something that he likes doing and that was cross word puzzles. Susan went threw a lot of medical treatment that with her father that I would have done to. That is one out of a million people that stuck by her father the way she did. In 2002 her father was diagnosed with metastic head and neck cancer.
It was about an old couple who nearly got killed by a teenager. They were going to be fine, but the husband was depressed because he could not see his wife through eyeholes in his cast. Nick and Laura, in the other hand, they say that they know what exactly love is, but has nothing as a clear definition or explanation. They only demonstrate their love by kissing or holding hands. The conversation keeps going.