After reading the selection of topics to write about for the first ancillary assignment, and ultimately the rhetorical analysis, I chose 'Equality Now'. I thought the article was quite comical in that a woman with a wonderful, helpful, and supportive husband, two children, and a job of leisure could find so much to complain about in being a housewife. Issues like jealously over her daughter's affection for father and having a husband who cooks all the meals are two examples of grievances of Kane's everyday life. Her main rhetorical strategy was exaggeration, which she relied on heavily in order to make her struggles believable and, overall, gain the sympathies of her audience, housewives with young ones.
*Kristina Ripperdan*
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Hi Kristina,
ReplyDeleteYou write very well here. It's clear you didn't find Kane's argument very convincing, but you say she "make[s] her struggles believable and, overall, gain the sympathies of her audience, housewives with young ones." Do you mean that she attempts to make it believable or that she does (and you, as a singular reader) don't agree? Make sure you stay in present tense ("is" exaggeration, "relies" on heavily, etc.)