My Problem With Her Anger Summary

Marriage is an eternal commitment between two people who love each other. But marriage is not always perfect and passionate as society has portrayed it to be. Marriage will inevitably be filled with annoyance and aggravation, because both individuals hold expectations their spouse cannot meet. In My Problem With Her Anger, newspaper writer Eric Bartels discusses the husband’s point of view in a traditional, but modern, marriage. In his article, Bartels uses subjective language in order to express the constant quarrel between him and his wife’s perpetual anger to influence his male audience into sympathizing with his marital obstacles.

Bartels initiates the story by recalling the night when he looked at the days old of dirty dishes and realized he had been left with certain responsibilities. No one in his family, which consists of 2 kids and a wife, had bothered to help him. In that exact moment, he sees that cleaning the dishes was an expectation made unconsciously by the rest of the family. He utilizes this event as a way to demonstrate all the work

Had he written the paper in the early 1900s, there would be a grand chance that he wouldn’t have ever bothered to help his wife around the house and a massive chance she wouldn’t have had a job of her own. However, the article is written in early 2000s, where marriage has become a companionship between two people. Furthermore, if Bartels wrote this before he had two kids, he most likely wouldn’t be venting so much because his wife wouldn’t have been so angry. He wrote his paper because he realized there was another “level of fury” his wife displayed once she became a mother (Bartels 58). Taking these accounts into consideration, his argument would not portray him as the sufferer until after he was married with children. It is through vivid language and word choice that allows his readers to understand the daily battles spouses