Comparative piece

A similarity between text A and text B is that they both contain short sentences, for example in text A: ‘dependability’, and in text B: ‘it’s the same with the word secretary’. Due to the non-existent complex sentences in either texts this indicates that the job of a secretary is simple just like the sentence structure. The structure exhibits that the job of a secretary is straightforward and unpretentious, basically displaying that anybody has the capability to complete the task of a secretary. Focusing this on society in the time period of the 1970’s it accentuates the fact that women live the simple life; not needing to complete strenuous activities - unlike men. Text A uses a complex sentence to designate the boss in the industry, already identifying the boss as a male through the use of the second person pronoun, ‘he knows any job left in her hands will be carried out just as he would have done it himself-only better.’ This furthers my point about society in the time period that women are degraded to live the simple life and men are set out to do more – live a complex life. Therefore the usage of simple, short sentences in both texts helps heighten the fact that women are given the easy job as they are predicted to struggle as they are inferior to men, demonstrated here in the example of – the job industry.

A difference is that text A incorporates a picture to add to the graphological features used to give an enhanced overall effect of the text, yet text B decided against this device being used. The image is of a woman displaying what goes on in a secretarial office. This links to the audience as it’s a women in the picture and the audience is aimed towards aspiring female secretaries, this give the impression that women have the primary space to occupy this job as it is gender specifying in the image.