The Lady In Red Analysis

Although four out of every five people seem, lost all humanity in todays world, Richard LeMieux shows that one person who still has their humanity through his humbiling experience. The purpose of LeMieux’s excerpt “The Lady In Red” serves to illustrate to the reader a world in which people contain no desire to even help out an unfortunate man on the street and he successfully persuades the reader of this horror mainly through pathos appeal. LeMieux and his dog Willow find themselves in a rough situation and must resort to begging on the streets. The author explains, whenever LeMieux runs into less fortunate people when wealthy, he, most of the time, gave some money, even if he knew they lied and made up fake stories. LeMieux learned the hard way, the cold truth of humanity and the absence of generousity. LeMieux began to beg on the streets and over time experienced …show more content…
Just as LeMieux begins to give up on hope he feels a tap on his shoulder. An older lady who seems gravely ill and coughing viciously, in a red coat and hat overheard his past confrontations and actually decides to help him out. The way Richard expresses his gratitude towards this stranger gives the reader an image of this woman in red’s personality. The description the author makes when the lady donates the money to Richard makes it seem like she gave him a couple of dollars and some change, when in reality she actually provided him with “sixty-four dollars and fifty cents. By doing this, the author intends to shock the reader and give them no choice but to realize just how jenerous “The Lady in Red” may be. It really makes you think how messed up society interacts, so much so that a sick elderly woman even helps out a poor man, but not a young healthy man pulling into the grocery store in a