Lost In The Kitchen Figurative Language

Gender inequality has always been a constant obstacle that America has tried to overcome with persistent progress. Dave Barry’s “Lost In The Kitchen” conveys a stereotype of such instance through Thanksgiving dinner, discreetly pushing the audience to break those gender cliches. Barry’s usage of humor and figurative language is evident throughout the piece, allowing his central idea to get across to the audience in a more casual and playful light (albeit still educating) rather than through a more serious and formal tone. An example of this appears almost right in the beginning, where Barry uses a simile to compare men being “as useful around the kitchen as ill-trained Labrador retrievers.” This amusing image also helps to underline men going