The media constantly bombards its viewers with what is right and wrong. Especially, when it comes to love and the way a family should work. The story always goes that a boy meets a girl, they fall in love, get married, have kids, and live happily ever after. For approximately 50% of marriages, this is not the case. Most the time people are fine going their separate ways, but some couples have kids. They decide to stay together through the constant disagreements, the inability to relate, and different world views. These couples try to maintain the nuclear family that society has deeply ingrained into their brains. The song “Forest Whitaker” addresses the type of relationship that is typically ignored; the relationship where the nuclear family decays. The literal part of the song discusses the end of a marriage and the aftermath. The poetic devices suggest what happened during the first part of the relationship and what caused it to fail.…show more content… The man goes on to explain his wife’s vices such as her drinking problem, hatred for him, and how she tries to worm her way back into his life. Her drinking problem is mentioned as the husband mentions that his wife dislikes her job stating that, “You started a job/That you hate when your sober/And hate even more when you're not”. After, the anaphora, “I know you hate me too/You always say you do,” is repeated many times throughout the song. It is a reminder that the man’s ex wife is not fond of him, and, when she contacts him later in the song, she has alternative
