How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart Analysis

Literature Analysis

While reading David Wallace’s short story, “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,” it started the story convincing the readers that Wallace was just jealous of the professional tennis player, Tracy Austin. He made his argument that he was once a tennis player, growing up playing in the same league as a now successful player. However, this short story developed much more than just an overthrow of the prodigy this girl has become. This text was wrapped around Wallace’s idea of autobiographies and how they are crowd-pleasing texts. Wallace developed that athletes write their autobiographies all with the common themes of growing up poor and the obstacles they had to overcome, instead of the interesting and real facts about what actually

In a well-developed argumentative essay, comparison is important because in order to back up the thesis with evidence, it also has to prove why what the opposing competitor who is thinking otherwise is not as correct. We saw Wallace do this on page 151 when he demonstrates how Austin’s autobiography did an acceptable job displaying her achievements. However, he then came to argue how those achievements were not brought up by what she had to go through to get them. He used examples that helped with comparing what she used with what she could have used that allowed for his argument to be credible. For example, Wallace explained how in the autobiography the examples of how she got to being an incredible athlete were examples such as growing up in a poor family or not making a quality tennis team at first. But then Wallace shows how the stories she told did not compare to the stories that truly developed the athlete. This was used on page 151 when Wallace stated, “getting sideswiped by a van and having her leg shattered through sheer bad luck.” The use of comparison that Wallace used helped credit his idea that Austin’s story was not worth the money paid for