Summary Of Speech 'At The Women's National Press Club'

In the introduction of Clare Boothe Luce's speech, at the Women's National Press Club. Clare prepares the audience for the appreciable critiquement. Through various rhetoric modes Clare arranges her message to ready the audience for the critiquement that will later come to play in the rest of her speech. Within the first section of the introduction speech by Clare, she asserts that the audience may be alarmed or offended with what she is about to tell them. For the audience to be aware that she understands the task she has at hand, Clare makes this clear with an antithesis.
"I am less happy than you think and more challenged than you know." Thus informing the audience that she understands the task at hand. Wanting the audience's