The Company Man
... gift blessed from god which has to be respected, valued and appreciated unconditionally. Many of us today are guilty of taking our loved ones for granted and unfortunately for some of us, due to fatal circumstances are unable to let them know how much we love them. Goodman gives a perfect example this with Phil’s second child. ‘alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.’ The reader can easily envision that after the fathers’ death the second child must be regretting not having the closeness with her father that her younger brother seemed to have. Goodman focuses on this situation in order to warn the reader in advance to take action and think twice about how to treat people. This is for preparation, incase anything unfortunate was to happen, one would be able to grieve fully without feeling a sense of guilt and regret that could possibly affect the way they live the rest of their lives. Through reading the article I find that selfishness is one of the main themes that the author focuses in on. I felt a sense of disappointment to see that Phil’s wife was grieving more over the loss of her income than ov...