Have You No Sense of Decency?: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Have You No Sense of Decency?: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
God
Near the end of Welch's smackdown, he utters the immortal line: "I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me" (Welch.90).While this is not th...
He's Just a Boy
During Welch's impassioned defense of the wounded Fisher, he says, "Little did I dream you could be so reckless and cruel as to do an injury to that lad" (Welch.90).Welch, by using the word "lad,"...
Evidence
As Welch begins to back McCarthy into a corner with his own stories about why Fred Fisher shouldn't be maligned, McCarthy responds mostly with…vagaries. In particular: The foremost legal bulwark...