Rhetorical Analysis Of Nancy Mairs

Nancy Mairs had a normal, healthy life like any other person. Although, as time went by, she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which eats away the protective covering of nerves which interrupts the nerves’ signals that passes through the central nervous system. Mairs piece had a purpose to inform her audience about her personal life and her thoughts about being “crippled”. Mairs also includes the superficial beauty standards society has set. Mairs relates it to her and her audience’s feelings about the way it shaped people’s criticism of others that do not set to the superficial standards in society. Mairs captivates her audience to read more and be thoughtful about what she wrote is because of her uses of a variety of rhetorical
Coming across to the fact that Mairs’ had a normal life, Maris’ invites the reader to all the things she got to do when she wasn’t a cripple in an infinite list. “I was a normally active child and young adult. I climbed trees, played hopscotch, jumped rope, skated, swam, rode my bicycle, sailed.” (Mairs, 233). Mairs effectively used this asyndeton by listing the many activities any person would be able to do without the excessive use of conjunctions. It creates a concrete picture in the reader’s mind and continue to read what more there is. After her asyndeton, she contrast the fact she was never good at any of the activities listed, but Mairs reminisce on the times she did get to do that. She also uses an asyndeton about how society views as an ideal woman. According to Mairs, an ideal woman seen as “her hair has body, her teeth flash white, her breath smells minty, her underarms are dry,” (Mairs, 238). This asyndeton represents the endless expectations and qualities of an ideal girl. Which, Mairs also creates a “picture perfect” woman who can cook and has talent along with having a beautiful appearance. Although, after listing the qualities of the ideal woman, she ends her paragraph with “But she is never a cripple.” (Mairs,