Rhetorical Analysis of "Red Shoes"

When Susan Griffin was writing this story, I think she was trying to tell the readers of how women were viewed as well as tell a story of her own about the red shoes. She mentions her grandmother and mother and I think she wanted people to know about what their views were like and how they were. I think the statement of purpose in this story is to educate people on a woman’s society as well as share her personal story.

I think it was definitely her choice to take two stories and intertwine the two together. I personally did not like the way the story was arranged, I have only seen a few pieces of writing that were arranged in the way. The story starts off in regular text talking about the imprisonment of a woman’s mind and then the next paragraph is put in italics and starts a story of her own life.

Ms. Griffin strategically decided to organize her story in this specific way. She has two different stories that she is trying to have people read but instead of making two completely different stories, she kind of turns them into one by doing one paragraph of one story and then another paragraph of a completely different story but both stories relate to each other.

The one anomaly I can think of is that she doesn’t transition the stories together, they stay completely separate. I think the two stories have things in common but it makes the reading hard to read when there is no transition or when there are two completely different stories to be read.

I feel good about what I originally wrote, but I did forget to mention the amount of colors that she talks about. Ms. Griffin relates certain colors to certain emotions, and I failed to include that in the beginning of the piece. I think that she was trying to see if the people that read the story could possibly get the same reaction to these colors, or maybe even see if they get different reactions.