Analysis Essay

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Analysis Essay

• Focus on The Company Man

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Purpose

• Simple Dont work too hard.
• Less Simple Dont sacrifice your job for your
  family.
• Good If you focus your life on any one thing
  instead of people, you will have no one to
  remember you, no legacy.
• Better than Good Relationships with people are
  what will leave a legacy. Too many people are so
  focused on unimportant parts of their lives.
• Great It is essential to value relationships
  with people even if we live in a society where a
  persons worth is dependent upon their work.

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AWESOME (from the internet)

• Corporate American is at fault for fostering the
  development of individuals who, apparently, have
  little in the way-of-souls Goodman-paints
  a-bleak and pronounced portrait of people who
  have lost touch with their families with their
  values, and even with themselves.

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The intro

• Ellen Goodman wrote The Company Man to show us
  that _____PURPOSE________. She does this in an
  obscure way. If we look closely at this piece we
  can find the underlying meaning.
• ADD ON? Her essay lets us not only learn about
  the sad life of a company man who represents many
  people in a bustling society, but also feel what
  his life was like.
• ADD ON? Phil worked himself to death and didnt
  know his family. The neighbors didnt know him
  either.
• ADD ON? People work so hard and then die. They
  are easily replaced. Phil needed to spend time
  with his family.

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Great Intro-

• Ellen Goodman uses an arsenal of rhetorical
  strategies to demonstrate her sentiments towards
  the main character, Phil -- one of the few, cold
  individuals able to march robotically through
  life, frigidly and indifferently pursuing the
  forever unseen pinnacle of success. Phil, to
  Goodman, embodies Corporate America. The
  descriptions of Phil in The Company Man are
  sardonically accusatory of the present way people
  live in society.

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Body Paragraph?

• Phil maintains a 70-hour work week and eats egg
  salad sandwiches at his desk. His death is seen
  as unsurprising by the people who knew him, and
  they did nothing more than shake their heads when
  they heard the news. Phil's character is
  seemingly insignificant. Goodman mentions that
  Phil was "fifty-one years old, and a vice
  president". No one really cared about him even
  though he seemed important to his company.

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Revised Body Paragraph??

• The author makes light of the fact that Phil is a
  heart attack waiting to happen, and that he
  maintains a 70-hour work week, by mentioning the
  simple fact that he eats egg salad sandwiches.
  His death is seen as unsurprising by the people
  who knew him, and they did nothing more than
  shake their heads when they heard the news.
  Phil's character is seemingly insignificant.
  Goodman mentions that Phil was "fifty-one years
  old, and a vice president". With this, she leads
  the reader to believe that Phil had a very
  influential role on his company. The subsequent
  line, however, reveals that "He was, however, one
  of six vice presidents." In the ending lines, as
  well, this portrayal of insignificance reoccurs
  when the CEO of Phil's company turns away from
  telling Phil's widow that he will be missed, and
  immediately begins looking for his replacement.

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THE REST

• When the author makes light of Phils life, she
  shows us the insignificance of any persons life
  if that person chooses to be consumed by work.
  Phil lived to work. Goodman sees this as a
  problem and shows us that, in the end, things and
  jobs move on and people live on. This makes us
  ask ourselves where we are leaving our impression
  on the world, or rather who we have impressed in
  the world.