Phil Goodman And His Family: Phil's Relationship With His Family

Phil’s relationship with his family is another place where Goodman uses rhetorical devices to place heavy fault on him. The image created as she writes about his eldest son “researching his father” by scouring the neighborhood talks of the distance in their relationship. Their family dynamic is obviously strangly skewed from what would normally be expected in a household. Seeing as the children’s relationship with their mother is intact, Goodman must be trying to communicate with the audience that Phil is to be held accountable. Another image of Phil’s faults are created as Goodman talks about the dynamic within Phil’s marriage, stating that his wife stopped believing she was more important than his work years ago, “when the children were small.”