Clean-Up, By Suzanne Britt And Striking Out By Dave Barry

Suzanne Britt and Dave Barry’s writing both have many points some different and some the same. In Britt’s story she is talking about how sloppy people are better and not actually sloppy by saying sloppy people just have too many goals and cannot achieve all of them. While neat people are rude, lazy and unhappy which is her opinion and nothing more than that. While Barry in his writing is talking about the difference between men and women when cleaning as he compares how women can see more dirt than men and how men feel more emotional about sports while women have passion about other subjects. Barry in his writing uses actual facts about the different genders that are proven and for the most part common knowledge. Therefore both authors compare

Barry brings up how women can see more dirt than men even in spots that men just cleaned as shown on page 220 when Barry says “But somewhere during the growth process, a hormonal secretion takes place in women that enables them to see dirt that men cannot see, dirt, at the level of molecules, whereas men don’t generally notice it until it forms clumps…”. Which in this case Barry is using facts and strong evidence about women that they see more dirt than men and men will not notice the dirt until long after the women do in most cases. On the other hand Barry also uses fact to support his opinion about how most men are more sensitive to sports than women. Using facts Barry goes on to explain how men can in a sense “feel” a sporting event happening if they are not watching the event. While women can talk and have no clue that there is a sporting event going on Barry suggests men are different and if they know a sporting event is occurring they have to go and watch it Barry explains this on page 221 when he says ...Tried to stimulate a conversation, but we males could not focus our attention on the various suggested topics because we could actually feel the World Series television and radio broadcast rays...”.This quote is explaining how men actually feel the sporting event

Sloppy People” Britt uses her own opinion on the two separate groups but does not offer any facts or any experiences of her own to back up her opinion. Britt suggests that neat people are meaner and actually lazy compared to sloppy people throughout her writing but never uses facts to back up her opinion anywhere in her writing. Britt makes her opinion clear from the very beginning of her writing when she says “The distinction is, as always moral. Neat people are lazier and meaner than sloppy people. Sloppy people, you see, are not really sloppy. Their sloppiness is merely the unfortunate consequence of their extreme moral rectitude.” (Britt 214). In the quote Britt is explaining how she feels that sloppy people just have extremely high moral correctness which is saying sloppy people will plan everything they want to do but so many of those plans will pile up and the sloppy people will not do anything they planned on achieving. This is a good point but there is no facts behind it saying it is actually true Britt is just stating her opinion about sloppy people and does not have evidence to support her claim. Consequently Britt’s claim can only be taken at some value because there is no strong evidence behind her opinion. Furthermore in Britt’s writing she never uses some of her own life experiences to try and back up her claim. Throughout the writing Britt uses examples and stories to try and explain her ideas but these