Genre
Sociological and psychological book
Setting and Context
The book is written in the context of marriage across social classes.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Instructive and insightful
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central characters are Madison and Evan.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between the class backgrounds of the blue-collar and the white-collar spouses.
Climax
The climax comes when the author concludes that the differences in class backgrounds in marriage are a vital factor that pulls couples together to combine varying experiences to achieve a common economic goal.
Foreshadowing
The conception of the blue-collar background foreshadows the laissez-faire approach to working.
Understatement
The impact of the white-collar background in career growth and development is understated.
Allusions
The story alludes to the class-based deviation between husbands and wives and its inevitability in marriage.
Imagery
The imagery of the most common complaint depicting Kevin as a lazy husband who does not want to help his wife in the house depicts sight imagery. For instance, the wife says, “When we first bought the house, I was doing all of the cleanings, and Kevin was watching a lot of football. And I was like, this is a bunch of B.S.' Kevin would not do more household work and instead recommended that they hire a woman to clean their home.”
Paradox
The main paradox is that the difference in class backgrounds brings couples closer to achieving a similar economic objective.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the economic concepts between the couples coming from white-collar and blue-collar backgrounds.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
A mythic belief is used as metonymy for conventional attitude.
Personification
N/A
