WB2: Reflection on reading (p. 244-249)
Comments(7) | For class last week, we were asked to read an article in our textbook about a house wife who doesn’t appreciate the way she is treated. The way things are today, house wives are becoming fewer and fewer. The lady that wrote these articles is a house wife and is sick of being treated negatively since she is a stay at home mom. Other people around her treat her as if she was inferior to them. She seems very angry and has a pessemistic approach to everything.
In her second article she talks about how everything she had built upon in the first article had fallen through. Now her and her husband are divorced, and she is even more bitter about life. She is angry at herself for not having a plan for the future and she feels very vulnerable and upset for being chased away from her mairrage of forty or so years. I feel like she needs a new approach on life and she needs to refocus on what she does have. Being in her position is unfortunate, but sometimes thats how life goes.
You raise an interesting pont here when you say that Hekker needs a new approach on life. The tone of her articles tends to be either defensive and angry or rather sad and possibly bitter. She may actually be a very happy and content person now, but her articles don’t lead one to think she is. What do you think Hekker’s pessimisitic tone does to the credibility of her argument? In other words, are readers likely to consider and agree with the points made by a person who sounds angry or bitter? Why or why not?