Communication In Rose's Marriage

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Communication plays the major role in Rose’s marriage. Although she and her husband speak the same language (English), it turns out that this is not the factor that she can count on. Despite the fact that she grows up in America, this does not entirely build her characters to be an American; she is used to acting humble as what is taught by her mother and this makes her to become someone who takes less responsibility. Due to her past experience about her brother who gets drowned and died because of her carelessness, Rose feels that she will have to take the consequences of her responsibility which can be said that in some way she has trauma and her experience makes her to avoid taking responsibility. However, the fact that she takes no responsibility

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