Rinard+G.D.

 Rinard at Manheim – Garrett Derrah

In this article the main focus is exotic cars, however McPhee isn’t reporting on the cars himself, as Rylan says, he’s writing about his friend who is inspecting the cars, McPhee is merely a spectator. This was a short article, a little over 2 pages in which McPhee manages to squeeze in this entire day at the exotic car exhibition. He does this in his characteristic way, jumping from topic to topic spending only a few seconds here and there, describing what he is being told about the cars, and in the same manner that he is being dictated to. Nearly every new paragraph in this article is only a sentence long. I think McPhee does this because this is the way McPhee’s friend is talking to McPhee. McPhee writes in this way to catch the readers interest, and make them feel like they’re the one who is standing next to this car expert. This effect worked on me as I read it, and it really does suck the reader into the story. This article is also characteristic of Mphee in the sense that McPhee includes dialogue he hears in his article that most writers wouldn’t. For example when the auction is being held, McPhee even goes as far to write the gibberish the Auctioneer says when he gets an offer, “hebabababebd, thirty one seven!” I think this is also to the affect of putting you in the story.