Rhetorical Analysis: The New Generation

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This is the age old story of a mildly accomplished member of an older generation criticizing the emerging younger generation in the current news platform calling them lazy, entitled, self-centered, risqué, and condescendingly judges them as if their own generation was not treated the same way, or is it? Well it’s both types of article, but like any good horror movie or reality show, this article has a few surprise plot twists in store for the reader with a moderately good ending. Stein starts out his article admitting he is about to unjustly criticize the Millennials in the first paragraph even, but justifies the criticism by citing psychological studies, academic experts and later personal experience even though he a member of either the

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