Marrying Absurd

PARSE “Marrying Absurd” Purpose Joan Didion writes “Marrying Absurd” to expose the absurd and dysfunctional nature of marriage in Las Vegas, Nevada. Didion believes the people of the city have made marriage more of a money-making scheme, thus taking away the sacredness of marriage. She writes “Marrying Absurd” primarily as an exposition narrative because she wants to explain and inform to readers that Las Vegas marriages are a scam. Audience Didion writes “Marrying Absurd” to advise young people, especially girls, against marrying young or Las Vegas.

In the play Tartuffe, Molière portrays marriage in a unique way. He expresses a different perspective on marriage that most people would disagree with. In the play, marriage never seems to base around love but rather seems to be a very serious part of their life. Mariane submits to her father because during this time period the father was able to choose whom his daughter would marry. This submission is not based on love but rather who her father enjoys the best. It puts a great deal of pressure on the father to make the right decision. Marriage to Tartuffe would have caused Mariane a lifetime of discontent and it would have also associated the

“Why Did I Get Married?” directed and produced by Tyler Perry is a movie based on four couples who take a reunion vacation to the Colorado Mountains in order to reunite with friends from college. On this vacation things didn’t go according to plan. Throughout the movie there was heartbreak, infidelity, suppressed feelings, conflict, and secrets raging throughout each of the couples’ relationship in some aspect. With these unfortunate events occurred at various times throughout the film it cause their trip to evolve from a place to relax, enjoy friends, and time off from work into an emotional and tense atmosphere with the involved couple seeking validation from the other couples on the reason why their marriages are the way they are. Even though the movie ended on a good note in their celebration of Janet Jackson’s character (Pat) receiving an award one of the marriages did not survive. This couple’s relationship will be my focus for this paper.

Consumerism has been embraced in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This is well brought out by the two protagonists in the novel. The lifestyle of the Duke and his attorney on the journey to Las Vegas is characterized by heavy spending on drugs, accommodation, transportation and gambling. The writer says they had bought “two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.” This were hefty expenses which the writer goes ahead to acknowledge that they did not actually need bur for the fun of it.

In Caitlin Flanagan’s Is There Hope for the American Marriage, she establishes the foundation for what the American Marriage means in today’s world by arguing that marriages are likely to collapse over time. With this being said, Flanagan goes on to depict the fragility of marriage during times of adversity, and how susceptible the couples can be when searching for alternative bonds from people other than their own partner, even if it means making moral sacrifices. Through a series of anecdotes from sources like herself to politicians, she further expands on this idea that the ideal marriage is nothing but a hoax for the likelihood of publicity. Flanagan includes sources from sociologists, such as Andrew J. Cherlin and Maria Kefalas, both whom

Didion being a professional journalist uses her skills to enlighten the readers on the account of aspects of the Las Vegas wedding. She articulates the extreme sarcasm in the specific wedding events displaying couples as people getting married for the wrong reasons such as improving their draft status.Didion laments how the newlyweds value their marriages while her tone disapproving to her sentiments and making fun of the issue. Didion expresses her concern about the lack of requirements for the marriage events in Las Vegas. She compares the event to a situation such as going to a fast food restaurant and instead of buying burger and fries; you leave with a new spouse. The

Joan Didion, the author of “Marrying Absurd”, characterizes the Las Vegas wedding scene as a place “which is set by mobsters and call girls”. Didion ridicules the wedding industry which has created the unrealistic and untraditional Las Vegas wedding. Didion uses a derogative tone, artistic clues, syntax, irony, and juxtaposition to argue that the expectations of marriages are manufactured to economically stimulate the wedding industry while leaving insensible newlyweds.

With the Corporate Gaming Act of 1969, Las Vegas began a slow transition towards “respectability.” Gambling in Las Vegas was gaining in popularity in the 1950’s and 1960’s, but the mob presence itself was preventing Las Vegas from attracting the necessary outside funds to turn it into a dominant Metropolis (204). “Nevada seemed to be shedding this image in favor of the many new family-oriented “theme resorts” that were being built, especially in Las Vegas (204). Then there’s The Rat

In the short story, “The Other Paris”, Mavis Gallant narrates a social commentary with the use of satire, irony, and characterization of the two characters Howard and Carol. The two young people, blinded by society’s expectations, decide to get married after three weeks of knowing each other. Carol, a twenty-two year old woman, is under several assumptions about how love and marriage because of a series of “helpful” college lectures. Harold, in an effort to not be a person without a partner, proposes to Carol as fast as possible. Throughout the passage, Mavis Gallant ridicules the awkwardness of Harold and Carol and how society pressures young people with the idea of a proper marriage.

My paper will present the debatable question, should prostitution be legal in Las Vegas? As I argue for the issue, the reader must know that there is a misconceived idea that the city of sins, Las Vegas, is home to legal prostitution. In contrary to popular belief, prostitution is not legal in Las Vegas; there are rural areas in Nevada where brothels are running and prostitution is condoned, but in the county of Clark, it is the opposite. Although it may not be true, legalizing prostitution can bring Las Vegas and the people who work in such a profession multiple benefits. Any person who resides in this city of lights is aware of the busy streets that are filled with prostitution occurring even though the law is against it. Whether it 's the unkempt streetwalker or the high class escort, this seems to be a booming operation.

Las Vegas may get you some "real kind of marriage " with little of "niceness " made in few wedding ceremonies in Las Vegas Chapels Didion end her essay with the same ironic techniques that she used in the beginning. A wedding party of a pregnant girl with her parents happy and proud, even the bride began to cry just because, she is so happy. In her essay, Joan Didion contrasts the normal image of a wedding to that of a Vegas wedding. Through her descriptions, Didion shows her feelings which Las Vegas weddings are tacky much like the city

In “Marrying Absurd”, Joan Didion illustrates the nonsensical circus that marriage in Las Vegas is. The city makes the ceremony of marriage out to be the clown at the circus, and there is no respect for it. Using Las Vegas and its dysfunctional behavior as its backdrop, Didion was able to cleverly ridicule marriage as an institution and the wedding industry as a whole. She was able to say that if marriage was allowed in the city where “Dressing Rooms, Flowers, Rings”, and other services were a common staple, then there was something wrong with the institution as a whole. Didion effectively argued that unrealistic “expectations” were just used as a cash cow for the wedding industry and the “Strip chapels”.

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