Today’s men do it all. Where does that leave women?
By: Jessica Francis Kane
This author uses pity mostly to convey her point, so pathos would be the key strategy. She uses contrasts and comparisons quite often between herself, women like her and her family. She is resentful of how well of a job her husband is doing with the household. She laments when her daughter could not yet talk and could not tell her about the fact she doesn’t cook or that she wants her daddy. I chose this article because her opening statement and paragraph tells the reader how she and her generation or peers won, they are now equals in the raising children game. She then spends the rest of the article describing how she feels guilty and ashamed of winning the game where husbands do an equal share of the work. Her main point might be that for all the downsides of her daughter not viewing her as the favorite she does view her father in a more nurturing role and she gets to keep her options open.
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Hi Chris,
ReplyDeleteWhen you say she uses pity, do you mean she appeals to the audience's emotions in hopes of gaining their sympathy for her plight?
You're correct about the comparisons, and yoy may well want to highlight tone as a strategy; you allude to it here in a few places but don't really pick it up and run with it as a strategy.