Rhetorical Analysis Of Ehrenreich's

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In the beginning of paragraph three, Ehrenreich's purpose begins to show with the line "But there is a new twist to this season's spurt of welfare-bashing: Workfare is being presented as a kind of feminist alternative to welfare.". In this sentence alone I understand two things, through her use of language I can tell that through out the rest of this essay she will be defending the welfare system and secondly, she is against the workfare program.
In the second half of paragraph four is where Ehrenreich's purpose became clear to me with her defense of welfare recipients by pointing out the issue is not laziness but poverty and that workfare is not the solution.
Ehrenreich points out the issues in the workfare program. The wages low enough that even with your earnings you are still below poverty level for a family. Also the fact it is considered a program for help for families there is no assistance offered for childcare. The main issue that leaves families with limited options for going to work. …show more content…
The sad story of her husbands abuse and failed marriage, the struggle of raising her children alone, how the comforts of every day life are worries for her, and how she lacks in education. Unfortunately this is more common then we'd like to think, she explains how welfare benefited Lynn in all the ways workfare would have failed her. She even goes as far as to ask at the very end of paragraph nine "Would she have ever made the decision to leave her husband in the first place?" This brings forth a very sad, but very true reality of the amount of women who have stayed in a abusive relationship and unsafe environment simply because they believed they would fail on their own out in the world or be unable to properly care for their
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