The use of hyperboles starts at the beginning. By implying the thought that being a male and that masculinity is like "having to wear and ill-fitting coat for one's entire life"(Second Paragraph). The placement of that statement at the beginning introduces his argument of the improperness of the ideal masculinity. Lightly relating to the struggle to prove his own masculinity with his career choice of becoming a writer. Theroux includes irruption suggestions of the manly ideal. "The manly attitude towards sports seems to be a little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadist, latent rapist and just plain louts"(Paragraph Six). Connecting the process to achieve the ideal masculinity through sports, he presents the interpretation that following that pathway may lead to a distressed life. Making a semi-appeal, the interpretation is as well as nonsensical. His goal to …show more content…
Paul Theroux demonstrators hatred and unpleasentness with masculinity the entire essay. Embedding logos in the citing of other authors as well as their opinion. The opening of the essay includes a quote followed by a sarcastic interpretation, "There is a pathetic sentence in the chapter "Fetishism" in Dr.Norman Cameron's book... it goes "Fetishes are nearly always men; and their commonest fetish is a woman's shoe. "I cannot read that sentence without thinking that it is just one more awful thing about being a man""(Paragraph One). Theroux put the setting stone to then follow the essay with a similar dynamic of a majority of pathos with added pieces of factual information to support his beliefs of the struggle of being a man. Using himself and his experiences for the primary basis for his lack of respect towards the stereotypical masculinity. However he abolishes the factual evidence he provides, because of the bulk of personal