Before He Cheats By Chris Tompkins Essay

In the song, “Before He Cheats” the writer Chris Tompkins, depicts the theme that unfaithfulness causes consequences.
It illustrates the theme because she thinks that he’s cheating on her with another girl. The girl is worried that her boyfriend is a cheater and that he is unfaithful and she thinks, “Right now, he’s probably slow dancing with a bleached - blond tramp” she’s afraid that he doesn’t love her because, “Right now, he’s probably buying her some fruity little drink, ‘Cause she can’t shoot whiskey.” Carrie Underwood, the girl that sings the song, is afraid that her boyfriend is cheating on her and that he doesn’t think that she’s pretty anymore. This depicts the theme because she thinks that he doesn’t want just one girl he wants to be a player and have more than one girlfriend and Carrie doesn’t want that. She wants a boyfriend that will be faithful to her and that will be happy with her forever.
It portrays the theme because, she takes several drastic measures to make sure that he won’t cheat on her again. She …show more content…
She knows that he’s cheating so in the end of the song she says, “Oh, maybe next time he’ll think before he cheats.” Their relationship is also falling apart because in the song it says, “Right now, he’s probably up behind her with a pool-stick, Showing her how to shoot a combo.” It shows the theme because the first quote is showing that their relationship isn’t very strong and that he’s not faithful to one girl and that he’s a cheater. She also took drastic measures to make sure that he doesn’t cheat again and that causes their relationship to fall apart more than it already is. The second quote depicts the theme that their relationship is falling apart because he’s showing another girl how to play pool and he’s also a player. That makes Carrie Underwood mad, so she takes even more drastic measures which causes their already failing relationship to collapse