the silly essay
...e was apple, and the waitresses were the same county girls…”. White only uses polysyndeton when describing the past experiences, because this technique makes the reader slow down and absorb the words, and in the story, the man does not want to let go of the past. In the last paragraph, the writing technique and language changes. The entire paragraph is focused on the present, which disagrees with the writing style of the rest of the story. In each pervious paragraph, both past and present were described. Since the present is just being talked about, polysyndeton is not used. The man telling the story is very confused, when he talks about his son, he confuses it with himself and past experiences he had encountered at the lake. “I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly…”. By calling him ‘the boy’, he could be talking about himself or his son. In the last paragraph when h...