"A Man Made Cold by the Universe" by Sherry Simpson

We do talk about Christopher McCandless in Alaska We talk about him a lot. We can't help ourselves. Mostly the discussion is in response to the book, and mostly it is not favorable because of the way McCandless stars as a romantic hero. Krakauer described McCandless as searching for something beyond his privileged but disappointing middle-class existence. "It would be easy to stereotype
Christopher McCandless as another boy who felt too much, a loopy young man who read too many book and lacked even a modicum of common sense," Krakauer wrote. "But the stereotype isn't a good fit. McCandless wasn't some feckless slacker, adrift and confused, racked by existential despair. To the
contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay
beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily. He demanded much of himself-more, in the end, than he could deliver."

Simpson uses all of the following rhetorical devices to establish her position in this paragraph EXCEPT

A. mixed metaphor
B. ethos
C. contrast
D. repetition
E. pathos