Associating strip clubs with God and
enlightenment seems to be an unusual connection, yet it can be done.
Joe Wenderoth’s personal essay, Where God
Is Glad, reminisced on his visits to Tony’s, a strip club he claims to be
like no other. Each time Wenderoth went to the club, he faced new personalities
and situations that he found uniquely indescribable. After each encounter,
Wenderoth felt the need to write about Tony’s, but he could not find the words.
Then after having a sort of epiphany about the club, he began to write about
the stories he gained and the lessons he learned. Wenderoth suddenly realized
that Tony’s is more like a hospice
than an actual strip club (257); it is a place for self-loathing and reflection.
Instead of being pitiful, Wenderoth said people should be enjoying their life and accomplishments. People are the same in the way that everyone
has to get through life and manage to get up in the morning; Wenderoth wished
to remind the reader that that is what should be celebrated. Wenderoth uses an
allusion and metaphor to enhance this point by comparing the club dancer to
“Narcissus in the calm blind pulse of inparticularity’s most decisive triumph:
facelessness” (258). Wenderoth uses
vivid description and powerful wording to explain that statement’s meaning: the
original beauty of that dancer, which caused breathlessness, became faded and
unoriginal, which made her faceless. This facelessness enforces the idea that
people all have the same basic struggle. Though hard to follow and understand for the majority of the essay, once Wenderoth compared the club to a
hospice, the reader could begin to infer his message and purpose. The beginning
of the essay gave tedious background information, and
the conclusion reinforced Wenderoth’s message: the Aztec
poem, “I Might Die in This Battle,” which enforced that idea that everyone must
struggle, but God is proud of each and every persevering person.
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