Sharon Rogo Character Analysis

While Alex is eating dinner with his mother and his children, after Julie has left him, his mother encourages him to share his workplace problems with them. Alex’s mother’s encouragement recognizes that although Alex is the corporate manager, his workplace struggles indirectly effect the rest of his family as well, since those problems often keep Alex away from home or so preoccupied that he becomes distant. Moreover, Alex’s workplace issues are ultimately the source of his conflict with Julie which drove her away, leaving their children without a mother. For Alex, realizing that he should share his workplace troubles with his family rather than hide them away is an important step in learning to balance his corporate career with his commitments as a husband and father. Although Alex’s instinct is to keep his problems in his own head and assume that his children wouldn’t want to know about them, his mother’s insistence that he talk about his problems suggests that he needs to share all parts of his life with them and recognize that they are affected by those problems just as he is. Particularly since Alex’s job consumes the vast majority of his time, energy, and attention, he should at least allow his children to share in his life by sharing the challenges of his career with them.