Stacey’s use of emotional appeal is most evident when she mentions her pregnancy. with her husband in jail only two weeks before she is due, she explains that her pain "may change to travail" (stacey). she continues to vent about her fear of delivering the baby without her husband, going as far as to say that without him "how can i survive? " (stacey) she is clearlyattempting to give her father in law a reason, aside from from his son being in jail, to them.