Neat People Vs Sloppy People Analysis

Suzanne Britt was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and studied at Salem College and Washington University. Her poems have been published in the Denver Quarterly, the Southern Poetry Review and many more literary magazines. After I read her article “Neat People vs. Sloppy People”, she talked about the aspects of neat people and sloppy people to related to the target audience. She contrasts and compare them to show a different aspect of ourselves. Therefore, this article should be published to the public because she wants her audience to laugh at themselves by humorously compares the two kinds of individuals.
Her purpose is to entertain her audience because she given funny and true details on who they are and what they do regularly. In …show more content…
It has many details that related to the readers and the public. Britt says, “Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbook into which they will put newspaper clipping, postcards, locks of hair, and dried corsage from their senior prom (Bedford 221).” She’s telling us that sloppy people can fit for whomever like to create scrapbooks. I believe that is one good detail that related to the target audience. In the intro, Britt grabbed the target audience’s attention by making a statement. Britt says, “Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people (Bedford 221).” The target audience may think why sloppy people are better than neat people because of the word “neat” and “sloppy”. Sloppy means careless and unsystematic; neat means arranged in an orderly, tidy way. They might think like that, but they will understand and see Britt’s argument between sloppy people and neat …show more content…
The author first creates an admiring tone by using diction such as “stupendous” and “perfect” for sloppy people. Britt says, “Sloppy people carry in their mind’s eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan, this is so stupendous, so perfect, it can’t be achieved in this world or the next (Bedford 211)”. These words portray the author’s feelings of gratitude and admiration for how sloppy people act. This sense prolongs the admiring tone she creates towards them. However, the tone then shifts to one of condescension when describing neat people. She uses harsh, angry words such as “bulldozed”, “vicious”, and many more to describe them. Britt says, “Neat people are bums and clods at heart (Bedford 222).” It seems she is degrading neat people by creating a condescending tone to show their ignorance and insensitivity. By creating these two contrasting tones, Britt adds to the literal contrast between neat and sloppy people. Even though I thought her tone was humorous but it is obvious that she switches when describing