The Company Man
1995 Question 2 Rewrite
Throughout reading, “The Company man”, we can conjure a sense of Goodman’s attitude towards Phil and his busy work schedule. To convey this attitude, many rhetorical strategies were utilized, including repetition and restatement, appeals to emotion, and the implementation of sarcasm, coupled with an almost dark and sorrowful tone. Over the course of this piece Goodman makes it no secret that Phil was overworked and had actually, as she believed, “worked himself to death,” and was a “Type A workaholic.” Throughout the reading she constantly repeats the idea that Phil’s job was a demanding one, occasionally employing the same sentence numerous times to drive her point home. For example, she specifically states three different times that “he worked himself to death, finally and precisely at 3:00 am Sunday morning,” and eve adding some further insight that Sunday was actually his day off. Through this strategy, Goodman makes the reader very aware that she does not agree with this type of lifestyle, and depicts Phil as a man who works 24/7 and cares for nothing else, including his own family. This begins to directly tie into her employment of pathos and her dark-humored, sorrowful tone. Because of her overwhelming emphasis on OPhil’s death being a result of his work, she can then shift ficus to his family, if thats what she would even consider them. She states that the wife ha been “missing him all these years,” even before he was legally declared dead, and that before the funeral Phil’s eldest child, one of his so called “dearly beloved,” had to scour the neighborhood “researching his father,” and finding out what he was like from his neighbors. She then continues by mentioning the lack of a relationship he had with his daughter, and describes how they “had nothing to say to each other.” As Goodman describes these scenes, one can not help but to feel mournful, and pity the family that never had a father; the kids who never had a
Throughout reading, “The Company man”, we can conjure a sense of Goodman’s attitude towards Phil and his busy work schedule. To convey this attitude, many rhetorical strategies were utilized, including repetition and restatement, appeals to emotion, and the implementation of sarcasm, coupled with an almost dark and sorrowful tone. Over the course of this piece Goodman makes it no secret that Phil was overworked and had actually, as she believed, “worked himself to death,” and was a “Type A workaholic.” Throughout the reading she constantly repeats the idea that Phil’s job was a demanding one, occasionally employing the same sentence numerous times to drive her point home. For example, she specifically states three different times that “he worked himself to death, finally and precisely at 3:00 am Sunday morning,” and eve adding some further insight that Sunday was actually his day off. Through this strategy, Goodman makes the reader very aware that she does not agree with this type of lifestyle, and depicts Phil as a man who works 24/7 and cares for nothing else, including his own family. This begins to directly tie into her employment of pathos and her dark-humored, sorrowful tone. Because of her overwhelming emphasis on OPhil’s death being a result of his work, she can then shift ficus to his family, if thats what she would even consider them. She states that the wife ha been “missing him all these years,” even before he was legally declared dead, and that before the funeral Phil’s eldest child, one of his so called “dearly beloved,” had to scour the neighborhood “researching his father,” and finding out what he was like from his neighbors. She then continues by mentioning the lack of a relationship he had with his daughter, and describes how they “had nothing to say to each other.” As Goodman describes these scenes, one can not help but to feel mournful, and pity the family that never had a father; the kids who never had a