English Language - Identifying language creativity in everyday English conversation - Essay Example

Download file to see previous pages The women are discussing the inadequacies they witness in men, this therefore amounts to the main theme of the entire discussion. The narrator presents a meal to a man possibly a very close man in her life, she does not reveal her relationship to the man as she begins top tell her story to her friends. Instead of eating the meal from the plate with which the food is presented, the man opts for a pare plate which he apparently fishes out of nowhere. He further continues to eat with his fingers instead of using the readily available spoon. The narrator therefore fails to understand the man who coincidentally chooses not to talk to the woman especially on his mood (Labov, 1966).
The series of negative and unexpected answers does not simply end with the meal. The narrator apparently told the man that she was preparing to clean the kitchen floor; she said this with the hope that the man could offer her a hand. Unfortunately, the man does not help with he floor and continues to stand by the door and watch the woman struggle with the entire kitchen floor. The woman therefore eventually decides to confront the man in a bid to find reasons for the negative attitude and the increased resentment. The man replies that he is too depressed to concentrate on anything.
The three women can not understand men and claim that men are lazier than women. The two laugh as the narration by their friend progresses, they try to chip in their opinions but their friend the narrator gets the better of the conversation and continues to rattle out her experiences with the lazy moody man. the trio assert that men fear work and do not like assisting their women especially with the house hold chores. The women cannot understand how depression could possibly result in the man refusing to help with the household chores while her as a woman normally has to deal with more than one problem at a time.
The story is informal which means that the story structure and the ...Download file to see next pages Read More