The article, “Is Marriage Obsolete?” by Heather Havrilesky, from The Cut, questions whether marriage is obsolete and investigates the steps of what goes on in a marriage. It states that marriage has changed from the 1950s considered as the good all days to questioning if marriage is essential to living your best life. What I like about the article is that the author chooses to share her marriage experience and include her personality, giving us her twist in the writing. Also, she goes on by stating that her daughter prefers to not get married and grow up in a tiny house with a subcompact car and a mini Australian Shepherd. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to live that way, as she states “It doesn’t sound bad compared to the slowly unfolding garden of horrors inherent to aging sync with another human”. The statistics that she shares in her writing are the 2017 Census Bureau report that states “45% of all Americans, that are 18 and older, are now single and more than half of Americans surveyed that getting married wasn’t an important part of becoming an adult”. This statistic defends the argument that marriage is going obsolete because many people are not gravitating towards the decision of marriage as a goal in their life. Learning the fact can definitely influence many individuals into possibly changing that report by their own actions and starting to increase the rate of marriage or it could encourage others to not find a reason for marriage to be essential. I also learned that married men live longer than single men however, married women don’t live as long as a single woman. That statement made me reflect and try to understand why that is. The typical standards that old fashion men still have are to worry about only stabilizing a family financially. However, women’s stereotype is to clean, cook, take care of the kids, and be the typical housewife, which all of that has changed now. Women are empowering, growing into job industries, and making it stressful to complete these so-called roles. This is why it could be that married women don’t live as long as a single woman because they have to care for not only their responsibilities, such as their job but their own family as well. The author chooses to share that her partner has seen her worst and states that nothing is more divine than being able to say that out loud in comfort. She states that it somehow feels like grace to be able to do that and links it with the marriage vows that state until sickness and death. It was kind of confusing because she was going from one experience to another but in a way, it kind of connected all together in the writing. The genre of the article did gravitate me into reading it because I like romantic, fantasy, and mystery genres, and the title of marriage seemed to interest me. In my opinion, the author chooses to write a specific way based on the genre because the author knows what type of people will be interested in reading the writing. The topic interests me because I like learning about different perspectives of people and the question of, is marriage obsolete brought to my attention. I chose to read this article because I never thought of marriage as obsolete. In my opinion, marriage is not a “trend” for it to go unwanted or considered old fashion. My perspective is that you would want to get married to make a solid law commitment with the person you love the most and share the experiences that come with it.