The Thing About Thongs Analysis

The Thing About Thongs The generation gap between mother and daughter has grown tremendously. Claudia Wallis’s writing, The Thing About Thongs, demonstrates this perspective when discussing the views of something as simple as underwear. The mother rants about her inability to understand while her daughter wants to conform to peer-pressure and “fit in”. The lingerie department within Lord and Taylor begins this confliction because the daughter wants to purchase a thong. The daughter’s reasoning includes the belief that every girl at school is wearing a thong. The mother’s remark, “But who sees them?” contradicts her assumption statement. The mother believes in the traditional and doesn’t understand the reasoning for this generation’s