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Analyzing Bartel's 'My Problem With Her Anger'
Cody Whitehead
Mr. Duncan
IU English
24 August 2013
Married With Anger In “My Problem with Her Anger”, Eric Bartels monologues about his wife’s anger that is constantly being directed at him for seemingly no reason at all. Bartels refers to his own problems in many comparisons with her own problems in an attempt to show that she is not the only one suffering. Bartels thinks that she should not be angry with him about her own suffering. Bartels does want to help alleviate her suffering and to make her happy. Bartels expresses frustration when she is getting overly angry at him for the small stuff or something that Bartels has no control over. Bartels states that he has his own daunting demands, from his full-time job to cooking, cleaning,
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