The Sign's Of Shopping Summary

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“The Sign’s of Shopping” by Anne Norton is an essay that depicts the many ways in which malls, and shopping catalogues sell products to the society by selling to them who they could be with those products. Norton’s central argument is that malls engage people in advertisements that are promoting them to desire the product and integrate to certain identities. She explains how malls are misleading and tend to appear to be a location of diversity and freedom, but the mall actually causes individuals to strive for a certain identity. People are exposed to ideas like the ones in the mall window displays, or shopping catalogs, which shape who they could be through having certain things. She provides a great example, “neither freedom of speech nor

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