Critical analysis of “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier” by Jessica Grose

Introduction
Many women within Africa grow everyday thinking and believing that the chores that they have never ended. The author who is one of such women Jessica Grose has developed an article text that highlights the plight of these women named “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier” this article was published in 2013 in the New Republic. The article clearly argues that although most of the African man have started embracing helping with chores that include cooking and taking care of the child the cleaning of the house and all other cleaning works fall majorly on women. Through the development of factual information, the author has managed to develop her credibility through the use of reputable sources, accurate statistics, and critically applying the emotional appeals to her audience. Although she managed to capture the emotions of her readers in the first part of her article, she fails to do towards the end of the article, and she weakens her credibility and her argument making the article appear vague.

Summary of the article
The first part of the article show the experiences of the author with her husband in their house after they had closed it during the hurricane Sandy. She clearly outlines the unfair distribution of the cleaning process of the house, she explains the situations and connects it to the major issue of who does the cleaning in the house as a feminist issue. Through her article she has managed to give a clear explanation of the reasons why men do not contribute to the cleaning process of the house and other things, the cleaning mainly is left for the women (Grose).

According to her opinion in the article, the media has encouraged the man to take part majorly in child caring and cooking but not in helping out with other chores such as cleaning. This not being any interesting issue to discuss within the society, she has developed some great suggestions on how to solve the problem. The main solution that she suggested is that making a chart on who does the chores and driving the chores based on the ability and skills different people. Another suggestion that she gave is that men should start accepting dirtier jobs and making of the cleaning process more enjoyable by developing and using machines (Grose). On her article, Grose has used very strong and reputable sources that have helped her develop a very strong argument which is credible. Some of the most common sources that she has used include the famous sociologist Judith Treas and many other studies that have been developed by institutions and professionals. In the process of citing reputable sources, she managed to add credibility to her work (Grose).

The expert’s opinion is one that is highly valued, and her ability to be able to add this to her work makes it even more appealing and acceptable to many readers. Grose has also used her personal life experiences in developing her argument, and this shows that she has an opinion on the issue and a good experience concerning the same argument. In her attempt to increase her appeals on the issue she has used statistical facts and very logical ideas, pointing out facts about her marriage concerning the distribution of cleaning work within the house. She admits that although the split the midnight baby feelings and cooking in the kitchen, he has never taken an initiative of cleaning the bathroom (Grose) In addition to establishing creditability, author has used emotional appeals in the text in the mid-section of article. For this purpose, she has tactfully opted those words that strikes to the emotions of readers. Grose used words “she was eight month pregnant and her husband fought with a pregnant person” reflects the man is attempting to quarrel with a woman who is not medically fit and she is bearing a life in her.

Through this illustration she explains vulnerabilities of pregnant woman. Primary purpose of Grose is to gain sympathies of readers for woman. Furthermore, in the selection of words, she picked those words that are characterized by negativity for example “sucks, judged, headachy, insisted etc.” (Grose). Though every word reflect negativity in its own way but the word “judge” immediately stun audience that a woman can be judged merely for cleaning chores. Author of the article is well acquaint with her audience. Her primary audience is men and society and secondary audience is women. Through unveiling hardships, challenges and concerns of women, she wants to inform society about a painful subject. Grose intend to realize audience that woman is not an inferior creature, therefore, do not limit her for the house chores.

A woman holds enormous abilities to prove her and her responsibilities should be in accordance to her strengths. To bring this issue to the light which is apparently very casual hold no meaning for men and society, keeps lots of meanings and value for women. It is matter of her respect and prestige. The argument by author is well established in the beginning but in the later part of the
article, her focus shifted from distribution of house chores to the house. This implies that she has
lost power of her convincing audience. It is apparent from the article that she had bad marriage;
therefore, problem is not merely distribution of work, it is something beyond this issue. However, she is able to made it through use of humor and sarcasm, which lead readers not to take the issue seriously at the end. Grose should end her article at some serious end so that readers could depart with the article with an agreement that men should participate in house chores.
The author Jessica Grose is concerned with the African women’s routine life of doing
house chores through her article “Cleaning: The Final Feminist Frontier”. She explain that trend
is bit changed with the passage of time and men taking part in house chores, however, main
responsibility falls over women. Author has tried her best to use emotional, ethical and logical
appeals in her essay, however, she is not succeed to end her article in solid convincing manner.
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References”
Grose,”Jessica.”Cleaning:”The”Final”Feminist”Frontier:”Why”men”still”don’t”do”their”share”of”the”dirty”work.” 19″March”2013.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/112693?utm_source=The+New+Republic&utm_campaign=115
d1b2086-TNR_Daily_031913&utm_medium=email.”17″March”2016.”

 

*professor comment*

In addition to the rubric, my notes include one or two big things that I think you need to focus on:

I noticed that you changed your topic since you submitted exercise 6, so if you’re going to do that, you need to mention it to me. The Jessica Grose article is still an appropriate topic and I thought it was interesting that you didn’t find the author’s rhetorical appeals to be very effective.

One thing you could do to improve this paper would be to include some information about Grose. The assignment description calls for a paragraph or two about the author’s career and how that helps the author’s ethos, or credibility.

The analysis of the article is thoughtful, but could have benefited from more direct quotes. When you use a quote, explain how that quote is an example of the author using rhetorical appeals to logos, ethos, or pathos. Discuss the rhetorical situation, or the cultural and political context, of the piece.

You need three sources for this paper.

NOTE: I just wanna to edit my papers and i send to you the professor comments that gonna help you to edit it
And please Highlight the things that you Edit (fix it )