E.B White’s “Death of a Pig” is a story of a premature death and the subsequent suffering of a pig and his caretaker. White illustrates the hardship and irony of failing to raise a pig properly, and having the animal die of natural causes, opposed to the pig dying in the normal scheduled slaughtering. White’s employment of the aforementioned irony provokes a discussion on the ethical nature of raising animals for consumption. White’s text causes one to wonder how the natural death of a pig can cause the high levels of depression and emotional trauma that are evident throughout the story, but when the death of a pig is premeditated it is not mourned and questionably seen simply as a food source. The typical seasonal cycle of raising a pig,
