Pink Barber's Shirt By John D. Freyer

When reviewing the different items from “AllMyLife” that were for sale it was hard to determine if John D. Freyer’s descriptions were more objective or subjective. As I was reviewing the Pink Barber’s Shirt, I found myself trying to pull out the facts from John’s description of his “Pink Barber’s Shirt” to determine if it is more objective and I then realized that his description is both objective and subjective; however, the single fact I found in John’s description of the shirt, is that the shirt is pink. The rest of the 3-paragraph description that John gives us of his “Pink Barber’s Shirt” is subjective; he takes us back in time into his past, when he was a young boy getting a haircut from Bob. He describes Bob as wearing a pink shirt like …show more content…
When I finally stumbled upon an item, a “Men’s Polo T Shirt Brave Soul Julius Cotton Collared Short Sleeve Casual Top”, which appeared to be for sale by a corporate business, I found a very straight forward and objective description. The eBay description by Capoclothing used words such as new, unused, and unworn and is no more then thirty words long; again, this description was very straight forward in describing what was for sale and nothing …show more content…
However, with the description given by John in “AllMyLife” I would have known with or without the image that it was a pink buttoned down collared shirt that he was selling. Because of the references John made in his description of a golfer and barber I was able to picture the shirt in my mind. Without a doubt, the eBay listing relied on the image to sell to the customer. In the description given by Capoclothing on eBay, had it not been for the image or the title of the listing, I would have never known that it was a shirt for