In a world focused on material possession, the routine of an everyday lifestyle becomes dependent on the haves owning more than the have nots. The United States culture tends to make trends and popularity an everyday necessity to fit in. Through playful sarcasm, Jennifer Price illustrates the way the American culture thrives off of acceptance and being bolder to not suffice but ultimately prosper. Price characterizes the culture using a plastic pink flamingo to reveal the foolish, carefree, and materialistic mindset the Americans possess. In her first paragraph, Jennifer Price contrasts the fun and playful characteristics of the flamingo with the Capitalist aspects of the United States. The flamingoes “splashed” into the “market” and Americans were “flocking” to “wealth” and “pizzazz”, …show more content…
Americans don’t realize it's origin or importance besides the fact that it stands out and makes a statement on their very lawn. While Price discusses the frolicsome traits of the United States culture, she states how foolish and ignorant we can be through her sarcastic tone. Price discusses the subject of how the Americans have “hunted flamingoes to extinction”, and how “ironic” it is that we are celebrating them in a plastic form when we haven’t realized that we never celebrated the real form and origin of this material item. The sarcasm comes in when directly following this assertion she says, “but no matter”, Price emphasizes how she should be more careless and carefree like the Americans. She sets aside her statement of great importance to continue to establish the development of the plastic flamingo rather than establish the origin of where this “pink flamingo” came from. This sarcastic remark directly shows the two opposing views of the American culture; their ignorance to the flamingo background and their airy attitude