Pink Flamingo Essay By: Larry Terrell In “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History”, Price elaborates on how the 1950’s gave rise to the famous pink flamingo. She begins by explaining on how the flamingo first came into major popularity. It all started with the Miami Beach’s own “Flamingo” hotel. The hotel was enriched in a beautiful color of bright pink and almost completely flamingo themed. She gives the reasons for a flamingo hotel being ironic as the American culture had changed from “Americans… hunted flamingos to extinction in Florida in the late 1800’s…” to a culture where the flamingo is welcomed and beloved by many.
Now the future seems brighter for the United States and it is being expressed greatly through the abundance of this new plastic pink flamingo that seems to make Americans feel livelier. It is through the use of Allusions that Price shows us how the pink flamingo has become a great symbol for the United States culture. First she tells us how in the 1930’s vacationing Americans themselves were going to Florida and returning home with a pink flamingo as a souvenir. She also mentions how in the 1910s and 1920s the first grand hotel in Miami Beach named The Flamingo gave more fame to the bird due to its great wealth. This caused an outbreak in architects persuading them into making more flamingo designs.
Jennifer Price’s use of strong diction clearly reveals how the phenomenon reflects popular cultures of America in the 1950s. The essay opens up with how the flamingo "splashed into the fifties," creating a sense of enthusiasm (line 1). The sudden splash of the pink flamingo into the fifties is a result of America’s capitalistic nature. Previously, the flamingo had been “hunted…to extinction” for in the 1800s; however, one century later, Americans are enshrining the plastic, pink version (line 14). This reveals the collective thinking of the American mind, as it seems that the only thing the mind is able to do is think about what the new "it" item is.
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