love and hating newyork写作背景英文版
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This article is a piece of expository writing It is about New York City. New York is a cosmopolitan city. a fabulous city with many striking features. Different people have different feelings about this city. In this article the writer talks about the different aspects of New York ,its attractiveness and the city 's diminished reputation .His feeling toward the city is a mixed one ,a love -hate attitude .The main theme or thesis is stated by the title " Loving and Hating New York ,"or more specifically by the first sentence of the last paragraph ," Loving and hating New York becomes a matter of alternating moods ,often in the same day ." The first four paragraphs describe how New York City is not the top anymore :its reputation as a pacesetter is outdated .Paragraph 5 sets forth the status of New York as a favorite city in the eyes of many Europeans .The last sentence of Paragraph 5 acts as a transition to the actual descriptions of New York City 's charged ,nervous atmosphere ,its vulgar dynamism ."New York is about energy ,contention ,and striving "is the topic sentence of Paragraph 6 .In Paragr
aph 7 ,the writer admits that he chooses to live in New York rather than any other city but it 'snot easy to define why .Nevertheless ,in the rest of the article he makes an attempt to explain why by discussing the different sides and modes of the city .In spite of its shortcomings and disadvantages compared with other cities ,New Yorkers still love their city for its " rawness, tension ,urgency ,its bracing competitiveness ,the rigor of its judgment .."
The writer develops his main thesis by both objective and emotional description of New York and the life and struggle of New Yorkers. The writer states that he both loves and hates New York, but the reader fails to see why he hates New York. It is clear Griffith loves New York and feels exhilarated living there. He may sometimes feel exasperated but this feeling is never strong enough to turn to hate "Loving and Hating New York" is a column article. Unlike normal news articles, which are supposed to be objective and factual, columns are subjective, making personal comments In the article we find the writer uses" "and explains things from his personal point of view. The columnists all have their unique styles in order to attract the attention of their readers. We can see Griffith, an experienced c
olumnist writing for more than one magazine, has a style of his own. For instance, like Shulman in his" Love Is a Fallacy " Griffith also uses many American English terms, phrases and constructions in discussing New York.
Loving and Hating New York" appeared in The Atlantic Monthly This magazine was founded in 1857, and still in publication today. One of Americas oldest magazines. The Atlantic Monthly features interesting and intelligent articles More than three decades have passed since the publication of the article. During this period of time. many changes have taken place in New York. It might be of interest for readers to compare the New York under Griffith's pen and New York today.
  Those ad campaigns celebrating the Big Apple, those T-shirts with a heart design proclaiming “I love New York,” are signs, pathetic in their desperation, of how the mighty has fallen. New York City used to leave the bragging to others, for bragging was “bush” Being unique, the biggest and the best, New York didn’t have to assert how special it was.
  It isn’t the top anymore, at least if the top is measured by who begets the styles and sets t
he trends. Nowadays New York is out of phase with American taste as often as it is out of step with American politics. Once it was the nation’s undisputed fashion authority, but it too long resisted the incoming casual style and lost its monopoly. No longer so looked up to or copied, New York even prides itself on being a holdout from prevailing American trends, a place to escape Common Denominator Land.
  Its deficiencies as a pacesetter are more and more evident. A dozen other cities have buildings more inspired architecturally than any built in New York City in the past twenty years. The giant Manhattan television studios where Toscanini’s NBC Symphony once played now sit empty most of the time, while sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airways from California. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood. Vegas casinos routinely pay heavy sums to singers and entertainers whom no nightspot in Manhattan can afford to hire. In sports, the bigger superdomes, the more exciting teams, the most enthusiastic fans, are often found elsewhere.
  New York was never a good convention city – being regarded as unfriendly, unsafe, overcrowded, and expensive – but it is making something of a comeback as a tourist attraction. Even so, most Americans would probably rate New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington, or Disneyland higher. A dozen other cities, including my hometown of Seattle, are widely considered better cities to live in.
  Why, then, do many Europeans call New York their favorite city? They take more readily than do most Americans to its cosmopolitan complexities, its surviving, aloof, European standards, its alien mixtures. Perhaps some of these Europeans are reassured by the sight, on the twin fashion avenues of Madison and Fifth, of all those familiar international names – the jewelers, shoe stores, and designer shops that exist to flatter and bilk the frivolous rich. But no; what most excites Europeans is the city’s charged , nervous atmosphere, its vulgar dynamism .

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