Rhetorical Analysis “9-5” By Dolly Parton The meaning of the song “9-5” is about a woman in the workforce, striving for equality since women and men didn't get the same opportunities. Dolly Parton speaks to women the most when they listen to a song by her. She speaks to women the most because she started with no fame, no money, and no way of getting herself out there- she is now so big,and she has everything she could need. Dolly's songs talk about real-life situations that have happened to her and bring light to all of her situations... bad, good, happy, or sad. Dolly inspires everyone to be themselves and always work for what you get. “9-5” speaks to women the most because the song is very relatable to women in the 90s. Her song is about …show more content…
Qualifications that Dolly has to be a good author would be that she is a woman, she worked and she wasn't respected, paid, or treated as good as men were in the 70s. The lesson the audience was supposed to learn from this song is that women need to be treated the same as men. As people listen to this song, the men tend to feel sad and empathy for women in the 70s, but inspired because they can help. Listeners could help in ways such as protesting, signing petitions for women equality, and standing their ground for men. Listeners should value women more, knowing what they went through in this time period. In the song “9-5”, there is a clear bias/opinion from Dolly. She is talking about women not getting treated right and being seen as less than men. This shows the clear bias for women because she is not talking about helping or advocating for men. Men would be offended by the topic of “9-5” because the song is talking “badly” of men and how men and women do the same things, but the men get better outcomes. I think in the song “9-5”, Dolly uses the Ethos appeal, because she is talking about how women don't get treated the same as men, and it is not ethically