How many times, from the time you were a bare-butt baby to a fussing fossil, have you been hoaxed by the many vibrant and splashy fronts of products stacked up in stocks? They like houses, cars, clothes, appliances- screws- foods, tools, stools, and an ever going list of fluff are designed to fool the common man into spending in unnecessary trifles. Fooled like so many before him, an English writer writes a memoir to reflect and describe his poor choice of stay. Using admiring and also judicial diction to demonstrate the hotel’s quality, contrast and shifts in tone, the writer better conveys his experience. This piece offers contrasting views of the maison, or guest house, that the two writers rented. Indeed, there are two sides to the coin. When first enchanted with the place though, the writer …show more content…
In these attacks, contrast about the renter is evident. Although ‘Senora’ and ‘Madame’ are both the same people, each term means something different throughout the piece. When the boarder was incompetent, when she lived in a dream cloud instead of on the ground, she would be described as ‘Madame’. She would be ‘Senora’, in contrast, when she was at her peak, dominating, the king- or queen, rather- of her castle. The writer declares that Madame ‘was not used to running a maison for boarders. She had amassed a great deal of pots and pans, and plates and cups, but, alas, no silverware. In this sense, in her absent-minded sense, she was Madame. However, we see a change in her authority, a contrast, when, as ‘Senora’, she is amazed that the two writers do not carry silverware wherever they go. She displays her resentment when she has to bring forth her best china, to be used by strangers. Also, too, we see her command her household when she guides several potential borders about her maison. At this instance, too, she is also