Greene focuses on the stories of five successful men who were cut from athletic teams during their youths. In an essay, discuss why you think Greene uses the stories of males (and no females) to support his main point? Investigate other essays and columns written for Esquire magazine to help you answer this question. In addition, discuss why being cut as young males from an athletic team is such an especially painful experience for the men in this essay or for any young male.
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As a male or a female, why is being cut from any team or group so painful? Is there ever anything gained when someone is "cut" from any kind of group? Using your own experiences or those you learned from interviewing others, discuss in an essay what might be gained by someone being "cut" from a group.
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