Price's sarcastic attitude shows her annoyance at America for their ironic actions. Her strong diction helps to show her sarcasm and annoyance. She also uses rhetorical questions and a rhetorical fragment to get her point through more clearly. Her use of symbolism and metaphors show exactly what she eans beyond the literal meaning.
To start off, Price's choice of strong diction helps with the imagery of her writing. The pink flamingo, a bird "synonymous with wealth and pizazz, had become popular during the 1950's." The fact that so many Americans wanted this bird at their home is ironic because "Americans had hunted flamingos to extinction in Florida in the late 1800's...but no matter. "Her sarcasm is shown through her words. We had hunted these animals to extinction, but what a plastic, "hotter pink" version in our homes. How ironic.
The only rhetorical fragment in her writing shows her sarcasm at its highest. "But no matter." it's okay that we hunted them to extinction and have replaced them with a much brighter, trashier plastic version. Using a rhetorical question gets te reader to think. After all, why call them pink flamingos as if they could be any other color?
The symbolism of the pink flamingo shows just how she feels about America and it's don't care about anything attitude. Americans can do whatever and it will always be okay. The US culture just wanted to look good, "extravagant," and "flamboyant."
The popularity of the plastic pink flamingo in the 1950's was obviously very ironic and wrong. Price crafts the text to show exactly how annoyed and upset she is at the US culture.
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