Analysis Of Neat People Vs. Sloppy People

Barbara Ehrenreich often applied the use of humor as a camouflage for topics that would otherwise be off-limits. She understood that humor is the easiest way to get a point across without offending anyone. On page 92, she illustrates a rather vulgar part of her maid job. "Let's talk about shit, for example. It happens, as the bumper sticker says, and it happens to a cleaning person every day." This is definitely a subject that most readers may have found inappropriate; however, Ehrenreich's tone throughout the entire book camouflages the lewdness of the topic. Instead of just dropping the anecdote, she realized the purpose it showed in illustrating how vile her experiences were. She went on with the topic even more by telling a humorous story. "The first time I encountered a shit-stained toilet as a maid, I was shocked by the sense of unwanted intimacy. A few hours ago, some well-fed butt was straining away on this toilet seat, and now here I am wiping up after it." This is perhaps the most effective example of the author camouflaging a completely inappropriate topic with humor.

Nellie Bly uses humor to convey her attitudes about people living in poverty and the attitudes of the officials who care for them. One instance of this is found in paragraphs 35-40, when Nellie describes the food Mrs. Standard served and when Judge Duffy mistakenly calls her “somebody’s darling”. She comments about the food distributed at Mrs. Standard’s home, making a few laugh and others to agree with her that she “wasn’t crazy on the food part”. This shows that although the officials may think she is insane, they respect her more than the pauperized in the courtroom because she is well dressed and speaks perfect English. Another

Women are perceived in many films, books, television shows, etc. that they are “airheads.” In the film Karen asks Cady “So, if you’re from Africa...why are you white?” The comment made in the scene presents Karen to be incompetent in the way of not having common sense, which displays the stereotype of women being “airheads”. This stereotype presents humorous intent because no one would expect this type of question to be asked and this is manifested in Rappaport’s Punchline surprise theory; mainly focused on “…unexpected positive events that are experienced as a happy shock” (pg.16). The theory comes into play because of the blunt question that was insisted, which comes as a surprise to the audience. Nevertheless, the surprise factor brings humor into the scene.

One more quality Britt uses in her essay to support her reasoning, is to tell her readers how wasteful a neat person is. She implies this mostly when she says, “Neat people operate on two unvarying principles: Never handle any item twice, and throw everything away.” (134) One example of this quality is, “The minute something comes to a neat person’s hand, he will look at it, try to decide if it has immediate use and, finding none, throw it in the trash.” (234) Another example is when Britt says, “Neat people throw away several toys every time they walk through then den (234). One more example is when she says, “If

The short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by Tillie Olsen is a touching narration of a mother trying to understand and at the same time justifying her daughter’s conduct. Frye interprets the story as a “meditation of a mother reconstructing her daughter’s past in an attempt to express present behavior” (Frye 287). An unnamed person has brought attention and concern to her mother expressing, “‘She’s a youngster who needs help and whom I’m deeply interested in helping’” (Olsen 290). Emily is a nineteen-year-old complex girl who is atypical, both physically and in personality.

Within the story The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mants by W. D. Wetherell, there is a particular self-absorbent, lethargic character by the name of Sheila Mants. Evidence for such claims can be found throughout the story. One of these various examples would be “Eric said I have the figure to model, but I thought I should get an education first. I mean, it might be awhile before I get started and all. I was thinking of getting my hair styled, more swept back”. Sheila Mants is being taken to a concert by the narrator on a canoe and she continues to talk about herself through the entire canoe ride. She rarely allows the narrator to interject or add their opinion like the self-absorbed person she is. Besides being self-absorbed, Sheila Mants is

In the writing, “Neat People vs. Sloppy People” Britt focuses on contrasting two diverse people, neat and sloppy. At first glance one would believe that her criteria is what is sloppy and what is neat, rather than how the two think. She concentrates her criteria on moral and sentimentality of the two oppositions. “They have a cavalier attitude toward possession,” Britt wrote about neat people. This explains that neat people don’t care about the sentimental value of an object. Neat people focus on neatness solely. In contrast she writes, “Sloppy people can’t bear to part with anything. They give loving attention to every detail.” This opposes neat people. Sloppy people care about each and every object individually. Sloppy and neat people are

Generally, Sloppy people say that “Neat people are bums and clods at heart”. But I disagree 100%, there is no way a neat person can be a bum; they always get their chores done before doing anything else. On the other hand, sloppy people are the true “bums and clods at heart”, here’s why they rather watch T.V on their days off rather than getting all their cleaning and getting all their chores completed before having to go back to work. A lot of people say that neat people are angry, hateful, and mean. However, neat people are actually very happy, knowing all their things are in place and clean makes them feel nice inside which creates a positive outlook on life. Suzanne Britt stats that neat people are no good to borrow from; “Neat people buy everything in expensive little portions. They get their flour and sugar in two-pound bags.” Buying flour and sugar in two-pound is a smart idea, because there is no need in getting an enormous bag that’s going to sit up in your cabinet for who knows how long. The expensive is always the better brand to purchase. Borrowing from neat people is the

In Judy (Syfers) Brady’s article, “I Want a Wife”, she expresses her opinions in a satirical commentary that offers hypothetical criteria for an ideal wife, with an underlying message that deals with how people should be grateful for all of the deeds and chores that women do. Brady utilizes the strategy of

The Clutters were a very well known family that people in the community loved and had great respect for : You had Herb Clutter , the father of the family ; Bonnie Clutter ; the mother of the family , Nancy Clutter , one of the daughter of the kids , and Kenyon Clutter , the son of the family , Herb Clutter was the owner and proprietor of River Valley Farm . Bonnie was his wife and had all four of his kids , she has slight problems like nervousness and being very apologetic , many people say she is the way she is because she is always being isolated from her former

Many times throughout history it has been shown that people are shaped and molded into what society calls, “perfect people.” Jamaica Kincaid is the author of the short story titled, “Girl.” In her story there are two characters, an authoritative mother and her young daughter. Throughout the story, the mother expects so much of her daughter in various ways. She teaches her how to cook, what to wear, how to behave, and many other attributes she views to be significant for her daughter’s role in society. Kincaid elaborates the theme of how to be the “ideal,” or “flawless” woman in a society, along with being respected through the literary elements of diction, imagery, and mood.

Women are perceived in many films, books, television shows, etc. that they are “airheads.” In the film Karen asks Cady “So, if you’re from Africa...why are you white?” The comment made in the scene presents Karen to be incompetent in the way of not having common sense, which displays the stereotype of women being “airheads”. This stereotype presents humorous intent because no one would expect this type of question to be asked and this is manifested in Rappaport’s Punchline surprise theory; mainly focused on “…unexpected positive events that are experienced as a happy shock” (pg.16). The theory comes into play because of the blunt question that was asked, which comes as a surprise to the audience, therefore, the surprise factor brings humor into the scene.

The purpose of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's textual analysis is to show that people who are well-behaved rarely make history, by giving examples as evidence. Ulrich says in her analysis that a student at a California University told her that, "to make history, people need to do the unexpected," and that is precisely the point. People seldom make history by behaving well, and living how they are expected to live. People make history by breaking the established conventions, and doing what no one expects them to do. Let me ask you a question; If there are one hundred dominoes laid out on the table and ninety-nine of them are blue and one of them is red, which domino(s) would stand out from

The original act of laziness shows on Hadley family’s purpose of buying this house that they would not have to lift a finger: “But I thought that’s is why we bought this house, so we wouldn’t have to do anything.” (Bradbury) The house does practically everything for them including brushing their teeth, making food, tying shoes and even putting their kids to sleep, so they could sit around and let the house take care the children with some technological help. As the result, the children became attached to the house. When George and Lydia attempted to turn off the machine, Peter Hadley said, “That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?” (Bradbury) He does not want to tie his own shoe and bath himself. They are a loving parents who buy their kids, Wendy and Peter, all the best technology machine to make their life easier, but it became too easy. Bradbury show us the predicting future technology in homes by the way we are dependent on technology and use it to our advantage, but at the same the technology can steal someone’s live without them evening knowing. In his story, the house has taken away George and Lydia roles as parents and has controlled the house.

Judy Brady has strong beliefs in regards to societal standards, specifically the unrealistic pressures forced upon women. Within her essay “I Want a Wife”, Brady emphasizes the ridiculousness of the extremely high standards women are expected to follow without resistance. In order to get the point across clearly, she creates a sarcastic tone through diction and repetition.