Questions

1. Gretel Ehrlich opens with a reference to the Marlboro Man (p. 1043), a lone and rugged-looking cowboy who represented Marlboro in its cigarette advertising for many years. With this reference and her description of the Wyoming landscape, what effect does she achieve in the first three sentences of her essay?

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   Questions: - Gretel Ehrlich opens with a reference to the Marlboro Man (p. 1043), a lone and rugged-looking cowboy who represented Marlboro in its cigarette advertising for many years. With this reference and her description of the Wyoming landscape, what effect does she achieve in the first three sentences of her essay?
2. In the first paragraph, Ehrlich claims that by romanticizing the cowboy, we have “disesteemed his true character” (par. 1). How does she define that “true character”?

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   Questions: - In the first paragraph, Ehrlich claims that by romanticizing the cowboy, we have “disesteemed his true character” (par. 1). How does she define that “true character”?
3. What does Ehrlich mean when she calls the cowboy “an odd mixture of physical vigor and maternalism” (par. 2)?

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   Questions: - What does Ehrlich mean when she calls the cowboy “an odd mixture of physical vigor and maternalism” (par. 2)?
4. In paragraphs 5 and 6, Ehrlich analyzes the cowboy’s relationship with women. How has the cowboy’s history defined the way he interacts with women?

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   Questions: - In paragraphs 5 and 6, Ehrlich analyzes the cowboy’s relationship with women. How has the cowboy’s history defined the way he interacts with women?
5. How does the paradoxical statement by Ted Hoagland that “[n]o one is as fragile as a woman but no one is as fragile as a man” (par. 8) distill the points Ehrlich makes throughout the essay?

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   Questions: - How does the paradoxical statement by Ted Hoagland that “[n]o one is as fragile as a woman but no one is as fragile as a man” (par. 8) distill the points Ehrlich makes throughout the essay?