Fancy Pants Rhetorical Analysis

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The main goal of personality psychologists is to determine why people think, feel, and act in the ways they do. This essay will commit to the psychoanalysis of Fancy Pants, through her own self-analytical essay. Fancy Pants suffers from deep insecurities about herself and her personality, and her psyche combats this with a need for power. Fancy Pants demonstrates fierce narcissism, thinking she possesses more intellectual and emotional depth than her peers; however, she is highly neurotic, and this comes through in her inability to be vulnerable in an anonymous essay. Fancy Pants seems to have a heightened level of insight, and she genuinely prides herself on this talent. She enjoys thinking about and observing patterns in herself and …show more content…

Fancy Pants’ narcissism is also clear in her lack of self-awareness, leading to an inability to recognize that her experience is not a unique one. She claims to “make the ordinary significant.” She suggests that she is better or different than most people without proving it; “I long for… the collector to my good taste”; “I am…really very smart”; “I have the right stuff.” It is nice that the author strongly promotes self-love and acceptance; there is a clear connection present from her father openly speaking on his self-hatred and Fancy Pants’ love of resistance. On some level, the author recognizes that the way her father treated himself is not healthy. Because of this, she aggressively works to be different, making “not fitting in [her] niche.” That is a lovely and completely natural response, and an entirely necessary part of …show more content…

She was able to turn the isolation around and pride herself on it, taking it in as part of her personality, but that is a very early step in the process of fully coming to accept yourself and letting others in. She speaks repeatedly of her self-love; however, she also reveals that she feels like an actress in everyday life. There is so much evidence of deep-rooted insecurities written between the lines of her essay, but it seems she is too afraid to reveal these truths to herself, despite her “heightened awareness of her own tendencies.” Lying to oneself is the easiest and most natural thing in the

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