Sundberg Rhetorical Analysis

Another rhetorical strategy Sundberg uses is a parable. Her entire essay is a self-told story of her experience during her relationship, giving warnings and advice to her readers. Sundberg recalls, “When I met him he charmed me. My best friend said, ‘You’ll love Caleb…. My love for him was real and I did not want to be a single mother” (209). Again, the author uses her strategies to prove how our reality is not necessarily clear cut. In the beginning, she truly loved him and because of her pregnancy, she was more likely to get married quickly. Later she says, “I could never bring myself to leave…. All the usual suspects drew me back—concerns about our six-year-old, money, where we would live, and love. I still loved him” (212-213). Thus, Sundberg