The Company Man Ellen Goodman Analysis

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Dying to Build a Life A price working Americans often pay in order to be successful is their own life. In an effort to make for themselves and their families a better life, they so often get caught up in their wealth, their occupation that gets them it, and their position in that business. They auction off a relationship with their kids in exchange for a higher title. Their marriage is falling to shreds, but that doesn’t matter as long as there’s food on the table. In “The Company Man,” Ellen Goodman makes clear her distaste toward the success-thirsty American culture, and finely illustrates the wage an absent businessman has on his family using many forms of rhetoric. An impersonal and slightly insensitive tone is immediately established

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