Nervous Nellies Rhetorical Analysis The foundation of our lives begins at childhood. Our morals, beliefs, and perception of life is taught by the people who raised us. Generation to generation, our families pass down tradition of how to live our lives and how parents should raise their children. It is cause and effect; You raise your child in a certain way, and your child will grow up seeing life in that way as the outcome. In “Nervous Nellies,” the author, Taylor Clark, shows an objective viewpoint of how both men and woman are both equally victims of anxiety and depression due to the way they are raised. Clark gives an example from her book, Nerve, that she calls the “skinned knee effect.” In this example she gives an outlook on both, male