"The Joy of Cooking": Tone

      In reading The Joy of Cooking by Elaine Magarrell, I find the narrator's tone to be snobbish and unsatisfied.  To start, the speaker describes her brother's heart to "need an apple-onion stuffing to make it interesting at all" (Magarrell).  So, the narrator judging something pure and natural: her brother.  Clearly, this person makes adjustments because her own blood is not quite to her liking.  This morbid piece contains a tone that reveals the speaker to be ungrateful of her relatives.  The tone criticizes two people the narrator believes can simply not be positively altered.  The poem's language is harsh and franks, conveying the conceited tone to the audience.  The tone is mainly displayed through the descriptive cooking actions done to the body parts.  Moreover, by describing all of the steps taken to better her siblings, the speaker shows that she is ungrateful and arrogant.