ABSTRACT
The book Frame Analysis was published in 1974 as Goffman's ninth of in total eleven books. It is both a remarkable book and an odd one. It is difficult to understand and a bit wooden, unlike several of Goffman's other books and articles, but in spite of this it is the third most cited in Google Scholar of Goffman's eleven books. Frame Analysis was one of Goffman's intellectually least successful efforts because, at the least, it was, even for him, so extraordinarily messy'. In Frame Analysis Goffman has two other goals in that he partly wants to illustrate what 'Frame Analysis' is, partly show that 'reality' can be made the subject of framing because it is not as solid as is sometimes claimed. Frame Analysis is not symbolic interactionist but structuralist, or the other way around. Frame Analysis is not about common reality.
