Company Man
In the piece, “The Company Man,” Ellen Goodman makes use of several rhetorical strategies to make her point. ... One example of this is: “At the funeral, the sixty-year-old company president told the forty-eight-year-old widow that the fifty-one-year-old deceased would be missed, and would be difficult to replace. The similar manner in which the ages were written serve to illustrate the black irony of the situation, the man who is oldest is the head of the company that essentially killed the husband of the youngest person, the wife. ... At the end of this particular sentence, the company president stated that Phil would be “missed and difficult to replace.