"Kmart has a lovable disorder" responce

          The essay, "Kmart has a lovable disorder" by Hank Stuever, was an essay none like any I have read before. The way Stuever creatively described Kmart was unusual, but yet he described it to a tea. In the sentence "a true Kmart is unashamed to be a Kmart. It has lipstick on its teeth..." Stuever creatively represented what Kmart was all about. I liked the way Stuever lists all the bad qualities to Kmart and makes it sound like a dump. At the same time Stuever's cruel statements make you almost feel sorry for the dysfunctional store and makes you love to hate it.

         So how does this essay qualify as a cultural landscape study? Stuever stands back and read the chaotic building for what it was. Stuever read the build as it was a bipolar person, he took all the stores flaws and transformed them into flaws of a person. The only problem I found, was judgment may have been involved in the way the author perceived the building. Stuever briefly talks about how 2,114 Kmart stores are declaring bankruptcy. That brief comment showed me that a little judgment may have been used when he was observing the building. Even though the statistics were true, that bit of information can change the way you see something. In my opinion that information could promote someone to see only the negative and not be able to see some good it has to offer.