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Theme Of Re Summary By Rodge Glass

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Parenting is difficult.
The responsibility of leading by example for the next generation is terrifying for the majority of parents. At the very least for the ones that care about the welfare of their child, not only in the present but more so in the future. Parenting and the fears related are some of the themes discussed in the short story Re: Summary by Rodge Glass.

In the case of, troubled and split heterosexual marriages, it’s quite commonplace for the brunt of parenting to fall on the wife. Instances of the opposite do take place, although the former is the most frequent. When it’s one of the parents alone delivering the tough love, children often come to resent their mothers, especially if their fathers badmouth and belittle them behind …show more content…

Honestly, it is to the point where she slips in her regret in marrying him, into another point about Heather. It doesn’t even qualify to get its own section. Instead, it is mentioned in passing, as casually as you might mention the sky is blue, and that we live on earth, it went down like so: “You act like the worst thing that could happen to a teenage girl is for her to willingly pull down the wrong boy's pants. God knows I pulled down a few of the wrong pairs of pants in my time. God knows I married the wrong pair of pants.” First and foremost she is expressing her concern for Derek's inability to relate to Heather, but as mentioned above, it has an undercurrent of dissatisfaction, and distant reasoning with ending the marriage. Commenting in parentheses on multiple occasions with the snide remarks often implemented between dissatisfied couples: (About what exactly, you don't say. But then, you never were one for details.). One punch after the other, she tears him down in this email, referring not only, as it appears on the surface, to his latest email, but also to, as previously stated, all of their years together. So, all of her reasoning is not centered around their daughter, but on a large scale the argumentation as to why Derek should

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