

Sunday morning on his day off was fifty-one years old and a vice-president. This man who worked himself to death finally and precisely at 3:00 a.m. He was a perfect Type A, a workaholic, a classic, they said to each other and shook their heads and thought for five or ten minutes about the way they lived. It said that he died of a coronary thrombosis I think that was it but everyone among his friends and acquaintances knew it instantly. He worked himself to death, finally and precisely, at 3:00 a.m. In doing so she reveals the dangers that can lurk in an addiction to work to the exclusion of everything else, including the damage it does to family life. Ellen Goodman presents the story of a man who works himself to death attempting to be perfect company man.
