Written by Francine Prose
The essay Other Women, is written by Francine Prose, a formerly married college graduate who became a writer and is also an active member in her local women’s group. Prose’s essay is about how her young marriage changed her view of men, and eventually turned her into a feminist. When her first marriage at the age of twenty soon began to fail, she started to question why men are still valued superior to women in this day in age. This led Prose to her decision of joining the local women’s conscious-raising group in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When Prose moved away due to an editor’s interest in her new novel, her former husband decided to sleep with several women in her women’s group. The audience that Prose writes to is a reader of any gender, however it is more directed towards men because her goal is to gain equality for women and destroy the common belief that men are superior to women. The purpose of Prose’s essay Other Women is to address the idea that many truly believe that women are inferior to men, however this idea is foolish and also unfair due to the fact that women deserve better, and are just as capable as men. Prose uses diction as a rhetorical device to achieve her purpose because her word choice connects to the reader’s emotional appeal. An example of Prose’s diction is, “I remember why he slept with all those women…by all those women, we meant two women” (Prose 243). When Prose carefully used “all of those” instead of the actual “two women” it connects to the reader’s emotions because the reader now feels sympathy for Francine Prose because of the horrific treatment by her ex-husband because he believed that women are inferior to men. Therefore, the diction used by Prose as a rhetorical device helps her reach the purpose of the essay because the reader now will side with Prose due to the emotional appeal created from the diction of her essay.
The essay Other Women, is written by Francine Prose, a formerly married college graduate who became a writer and is also an active member in her local women’s group. Prose’s essay is about how her young marriage changed her view of men, and eventually turned her into a feminist. When her first marriage at the age of twenty soon began to fail, she started to question why men are still valued superior to women in this day in age. This led Prose to her decision of joining the local women’s conscious-raising group in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When Prose moved away due to an editor’s interest in her new novel, her former husband decided to sleep with several women in her women’s group. The audience that Prose writes to is a reader of any gender, however it is more directed towards men because her goal is to gain equality for women and destroy the common belief that men are superior to women. The purpose of Prose’s essay Other Women is to address the idea that many truly believe that women are inferior to men, however this idea is foolish and also unfair due to the fact that women deserve better, and are just as capable as men. Prose uses diction as a rhetorical device to achieve her purpose because her word choice connects to the reader’s emotional appeal. An example of Prose’s diction is, “I remember why he slept with all those women…by all those women, we meant two women” (Prose 243). When Prose carefully used “all of those” instead of the actual “two women” it connects to the reader’s emotions because the reader now feels sympathy for Francine Prose because of the horrific treatment by her ex-husband because he believed that women are inferior to men. Therefore, the diction used by Prose as a rhetorical device helps her reach the purpose of the essay because the reader now will side with Prose due to the emotional appeal created from the diction of her essay.
This image of an old fashioned scale connects to Other Women because the author Francine Prose discusses the unfair treatment women receive as a result of the ancient belief that men are superior to women.
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