Question

Read the following passage from Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie. Determine which type of appeal the speaker is using.

"Well, in the South we had so many servants. Gone, gone, gone. All vestige of gracious living! Gone completely! I wasn’t prepared for what the future brought me. All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and so of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes—and woman accepts the proposal! To vary that old, old saying a bit—I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company! . . . A telephone man who—fell in love with long-distance!
a) Ethos
b) Logos
c) Pathos
d) all of the above

Answer 1

The speaker in the passage from Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie is using pathos as the type of appeal. Pathos is an appeal to emotions and the speaker is expressing her disappointment and feeling of loss at the changing times and her unfulfilled expectations.

Step-by-step explanation:

The speaker in the passage from Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie is using pathos as the type of appeal. Pathos is an appeal to emotions and the speaker is expressing her disappointment and feeling of loss at the changing times and her unfulfilled expectations.