The article mainly
tells his experience and the lessons the author got from working at VS. At
first, he tells how unexpected this employment was for him, because he was
planning to “begin [his] trek toward normal, civilized life.” His urge to
find a job in VS came when he was dumped by his girlfriend and decided that “[he] needed to study women.” However, “what
[he] failed to realize was
just how difficult this would be.” Aided by his inflaming persistence
and his courage to confront the risks of “registering [himself] as a sex offender
for the rest of [his] life,” with nearly
two months spent in the process of getting the job, he finally got approved in
the interview. He told the interviewer that he had “been raised in a family full of women”, and was
comfortable handling women’s undergarments. In order to confirm what he’d told
the employer, he was told that the company would call all people cited in his
speeches. Consequently, the author was forced to tell everyone that “[he’s] applying for a job at Victoria’s Secret
right now, where [his] mother
occasionally shops for high leg briefs.” During his stay at VS, he “figured if [he] learned anything about women, it was going to come
from watching and interacting with them.” His condition as heterosexual
man in a lingerie store minimized his efforts on interaction, because women “wanted to know what a straight guy thought
about things. Lingerie, swimsuits, panties.” The author tells “[he] was also surprised to find how forward
they were,” but at the same time, notes how “they talk, they talk in explicit detail.”His experience “at
Victoria’s Secret didn’t necessarily make [him] better with women, it simply
brought [his] image of them into a more realistic and startling focus.”
The essay is
mainly structured by anecdotes, complemented by his analysis and personal approaches
of the given situations. His language is informally humorous, for he uses words
like “freaking-the-hell-out” and constantly makes fun of his condition
as a man in a women’s space, as he writes: “I assumed they would think I was
one of three things: a gay man, a pervert or a perverted gay man.” The quote starting the article has a strong tie
to the title, since the quote has an explanatory function to the title. The
author also has a strong use of questions and separates them in different
paragraphs. It’s noticed that paragraphs are very unequal, some made up by one
sentence, while there are others that take 9 lines. Dialogues are also present,
and they speed up his anecdote’s flow. He uses simile, diacope,. The author has
a very personal approach to the reader using the pronoun “you”, because after
all, it’s all about him. His essay is
well organized and easy to follow, even when some chronologically disorganized
situations surface.
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