Wallace’s final rhetorical strategy, pathos, allows him to reach his audience in an emotional circumstance. Wallace purposely constructs feeling: “If you worship money and things...then you will never have enough...Worship your body...and you will always feel ugly...Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid....Worship your intellect...you will end up feeling stupid.” ( Wallace 8). Wallace’s repetition of the word “worship” is very significant and powerful. The reason for this is because he defines worship as “You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.” (Wallace 8) and these individual sentences reflect the typical day of how people go about their lives. This clearly gives
