Rhetorical Analysis Of Mr George Odger

In a small passage from a magazine that Henry James wrote has a cynical and somewhat gentile type of tone. He writes with so many oxymorons, one positive word right after a negative word. He speaks about a poor man’s funeral. He tells that this man was not inhumane but kind. Even though he was a decent person overall, nobody cared.
The type of diction in this passage has a cynically, gentile tone. “Mr. George Odger, it will be remembered, was an English radical agitator, of humble origin, who had distinguished himself be a perverse desire to get into Parliament.” This quote can be used to show that the article has a cynical type of tone based on the way he speaks of the man. He uses the words humble, remembered and distinguished. The word