Men may not be able to always find the spatula and women are there to make sure they never hear the end of it. Dave Barry shares his own opinion in an essay called “From here on, let women kill their own spiders”, which was published in 2005. Dave Barry is a professional humorist writer. Barry has been one of these writers ever since he discovered that professional humor was a lot easier than working. Barry revolted against a question he received in a letter: “Why do men open a drawer and say, ‘Where is the spatula?’ Instead of, you know, looking for it?” (Barry). Barry argues that even though men may not always find the spatula, women have just as many faults. Throughout this essay, many points are easily addressed. To make his points, Barry was able to connect with his audience by using figurative language, stereotypes, and especially humor.
In his essay, one strategy that Dave Barry values is figurative language. Figurative language includes, similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and so…show more content… Dave Barry uses stereotypes in his essay to cause his audience to act in a specific way that he wants. The sentence, “…my wife, who runs her own kitchen implement and starts doing exactly the right thing with exactly the right things without receiving an instructions whatsoever,” (Barry) comes from another essay called “lost in the kitchen”. This shows that men are not good in the kitchen. This states that women do basically everything perfect while men do essentially everything wrong. Barry states that “according to the best scientific estimates, 93 percent of the nation's severely limited bathroom-storage space is taken up by decades-old, mostly empty tubes labeled ‘'moisturizer.’”. In Barry’s case, stereotypes are used to help the audience be appealed with past experiences they've had in their own life and the humor these stereotypes
