The Writing Life Annie Dillard Analysis

Our lives can be defined by many things: personality, intelligence, hobbies, our actions, our attitudes, our beliefs, etc. When was the last time you asked a person where he/she worked, or what he/she did, and made an immediate assumption? It was probably fairly recent. Whether conscious of our assumptions or not, it is no doubt that what we do to earn a living creates some sort of stigma about us in our society. Our work defines our social class, decides where we live, and more often than not, how we live.
"I just can't see this 'ever-widening wage gap' you're going on and on about, old sport..." Says an formally dressed man, carrying a briefcase.
A man holding a spatula, dressed in typical fast food employee uniform responds, "...Sorry, …show more content…
Writer Annie Dillard says in her piece "The Writing Life", "I had thought I knew my way around beauty a little bit. I knew I had devoted a good part of my life to it, memorizing poetry and focusing my attention on complexity of rhythm in particular, on force, movement, repetition, and surprise in both poetry and prose." This shows a little bit of how she views herself, and how she lives on her beliefs, but she's done all of these things like memorizing poetry and focusing her attention on this because she is a writer. Doing these things has probably helped her become a better writer, and be able to produce pieces that she is proud of. In the same piece, she explains (talking about a stunt pilot), "He knew the mountain by familiar love and feel, like a face; he knew what the place could do and what he dared to do." The man she speaks of spends much of his life in the air practicing, exploring, and discovering. If he had a different occupation, he would most likely not spend his life the way he does. Annie Dillard, herself, might not have spent so much time and focus on writing styles and techniques if she wasn't a writer. What we do for a living gives insight to what we do when we're not making

Show More

Related Documents: The Writing Life Annie Dillard Analysis

Essay about writing life by anne dillard x