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Date Posted: 04:48:49 03/14/05 Mon
Author: Heather Riedel
Subject: The world is a wedding

I was wondering if anyone had any insight as to what Goffman meant on page 36 when he says that "the world, in truth, is a wedding". I thought that it was an interesting quote and I wasn't sure what he meant by this. Along the lines of performances I was wondering if he thinks that we not only play roles in every day life, but we play a role when we are getting married to someone and that a wedding is just a performance. I am curious to know if he means that as a bad thing saying that the people getting married are just acting and don't really feel about each other the way they say they feel. Please let me know what you think.

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