Embedded within the syntax of “The Company Man”, Ellen Goodman uses syntax to create a nostalgic tone. Between her combination of tactical dashes and specific details, the columnist manages to fabricate a tone that signals remembrance and passive aggression towards Phil. The manner that Ellen describes Phil in, with phrases including how he “worked himself to death” and putting quotes around “dearly beloved” as if he didn’t actually love his children is very passive aggressive. Ellen recalls Phil in such a descriptive tone, writing how he’s, “overweight by 20 or 25 pounds” and knowing about his “golf outings” as work for him is proving her negative nostalgia.
In the movie, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) did not exhibit the attributes of William Whyte's organization man. Whyte argued that American business life had abandoned the old virtues of self-reliance in favor of loyalty to the postwar corporation. Corporate life was unfulfilling because its routine and organizational structure robbed men of their identities and the self-fulfillment they previously gained from manual work or jobs in smaller businesses. As the title suggests, men donned suits, becoming indistinguishable from one another, and conformed to this lifestyle. As the protagonist, Tom, said in the movie, "All I could see was a lot of bright young men in grey flannel suits rushing around New York in a frantic parade to nowhere." This paper will prove that Tom's reliance on his own thinking style created tension for his organizational life at UBC.
In Arthur Miller's, “Death of a Salesman” and Charlotte Perkins Stetson’s, “The Yellow-Wallpaper” both struggle to maintain their own individual expectations in companion with Societies' input. Death of a salesman focused on how financial success plagues the family as they fail to meet the standards of the American Dream. The Yellow-Wallpaper focused on how society’s view of gender inhibits the narrators in functioning beyond her basic duties.
This essay, though seeming a little weird at first, is sophistically written and brilliantly uses rhetorical strategies to hint at the personality and style of the author. Throughout the essay there are many examples that go undetected, but leaves one with subconscious thoughts of the author. The writer’s personality saturates this article as he uses a passionate tone, but uses words and phrases that suggest his introverted personality and desire to sound superior.
In the road of life, the right path may not always be where the road signs lead. The road to self-discovery is found by following one’s heart and mind and to wherever they may lead them. Within the plays Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and Our Town by Thornton Wilder, parallel pathways and contrary connections can be established between the characters coinciding in both. In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is the portrait of a sixty year old man reflecting upon his past, one of lies and hopelessness. Upon coming about his past, he finally and fatally, discovers himself at the end of his life. Mr. Webb from Our Town plays the figure of an editor of Grover’s Corner Sentinel and loving father of Emily. Early in the play, he displays knowledge over his own self-discovery, which he hopes to tell others. The self-discovered Mr. Webb raised Emily coherently as a woman who in the end recognized the value of life. Married to George Gibbs, her life was very much comparable to Linda Loman, married to Willy Loman. Linda Loman was a woman dedicated to the needs of her spouse, but also therefore blind to the real needs that Willy desired. In the end, she still was left wondering why or what had gone wrong. Interlocked by protruding parallel traits of progressive self-awareness, these characters promoted the two plays to a higher level of understanding.
Willy Loman had always been a confident man for succeeding in his career. The business man, Mr. Loman, was so confident, that he explained to his sons that "they know me up and down New England," trying to prove his prevalence in the business world (Miller 1223). He had convinced himself of these lies that he had told his family for years and years. He could never admit that he was not a good salesman. So convinced, Mr. Loman was sure that he could advance in his profession and cease traveling to proceed business close to his home. When his dream ended worse than expected, Willy Loman felt that he was a man of absolute failure. Not only were Willy’s failures in his work place adding up, but the management of his household was placing a burden upon him too. Willy always had to pay for repairs, such as the mortgage, the insurance, and other bills. The emb...
"The company man" written by author Ellen Goodman, gives us a story about a man and how work has consumed him and his life. The story shows us the reader an inside look at the effect of work culture and the impact it has on one's self, family, and livelihood. Throughout the text, we see the journey our main character undergoes and towards the end gives us a self -reflection on the way we see ourselves and how much work we are putting ourselves through.
Sammy, the protagonist in John Updike’s “A&P,” is a dynamic character because he reveals himself as an immature, teenage boy at the beginning of the story and changes into a mature man at the end. The way Sammy describes his place of work, the customers in the store, and his ultimate choice in the end, prove his change from an immature boy to a chivalrous man. In the beginning, he is unhappy in his place of work, rude in his description of the customers and objectification of the three girls, all of which prove his immaturity. His heroic lifestyle change in the end shows how his change of heart and attitude transform him into mature young man.
His annotation of the “women with six children and varicose veins mapping their legs and nobody, including them, could care less” (Updike 159) and “the sheep” (Updike 162) in the checkout lines are an illustration of his everyday repetitious life working at the A&P. He compares these women to animals showing his undeniable sophomoric juvenile behavior.
In this semester, we have read several books arguing that wars brought women the opportunity to enter the presumed men’s spaces such as entering military industry to replace the drafted male soldiers. However, was the gain permanent? From Home/Front edited by Hagemann and Schüler-Springorum, we learned that the postwar German authorities desperately attempted to restore the status quo ante in gender relations. Ruth Milkman’s social history Gender at Work presented a similar scenario faced by American female workers in their workplace during and after the WWII.
In many literary works, family relationships are the key to the plot. Through a family’s interaction with one another, the reader is able decipher the conflicts of the story. Within a literary family, various characters play different roles in each other’s lives. These are usually people that are emotionally and physically connected in one way or another. They can be brother and sister, mother and daughter, or in this case, father and son. In the Arthur Miller’s novel, Death of A Salesman, the interaction between Willy Loman and his sons, Happy and Biff, allows Miller to comment on father-son relationships and the conflicts that arise from them.
The first evidence of a throwback to his old life is his first conversation with the information worker. Wanting to be employed, he resorts to applying for low level jobs. When asking for an application, he states, “Got an application there for a retired millionaire?” The information girl knew what he was after and was already on a personal basis with him due to the friendliness towards one another. This statement is not made out of spite, but rather as a sentimental anecdote about his old life. The author in the beginning of the story is being sympathetic for Mr. Newman, considering he has been unemployed. This sentimentality continues on with his interviewer later on with Mr. Shanahan.
Everyone in the world has an attitude, and that attitude is expressed in everything we do. A huff of breath can show an annoyed attitude, a smile shows a happy one, and tears a sad one. It can be quite easy to observe the attitude of someone based on their visual cues, but though it can be more difficult when trying to discern an attitude from writing, it can still be done if you read carefully. Three examples of attitude in writing can be found in The Norton Mix, in the essays “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” by Stephen Jay Gould, Neil Postman and Steve Powers’ “This Bias of Language, the Bias of Pictures”, and “The Big Movie” by Paul Chaat Smith. Gould displays a humorous attitude in his writing, Postman and Powers’
In Arthur Miller’s play, “Death of a Salesman”, the audience gets to witness the decline of a man so washed up and warped by his society that he takes his own life in the hopes that his family will benefit from the insurance money. This man’s name was Willy Loman, and he was a salesman in the late 1940’s plagued by false ideas and realities. In an interview, Arthur Miller described the man who inspired Willy Loman as a “failure in the face of surrounding success. .He was the ultimate climber up the ladder who was constantly being stepped on. His fingers were being stepped on by those climbing past him...And I mean, how could he possibly have succeeded? There was no way.” (Lahr 10) The society Willy lived in, as well as his own heart and ideals are what inhibited and ultimately destroyed his chance for a prosperous, fulfilled life.
Michael Hammer and James Champy became the uncontested "experts" to the corporate world for their blueprint of re-engineering. Why? What magical formula did these two individuals profess would make America great again? This essay will take a critical look at Hammer and Champy's book, Re-engineering the Corporation. Does this book have merit? Is it based on sound principles? It does not matter whether you agree or not, it only matters that you consider all the viewpoints.
The movie On the Job featured the different angles and degrees of crime and corruption in the Philippines. What is most striking about the film is that it is based on real events. In this aspect the movie served as an eyeopener to those who doesn’t know the clandestine transactions and processes in the different social system of our country specifically, the government.