Short thoughts on "Lady Olga" and "Holiday Pageant"

For this assignment, I read "Lady Olga" by Joseph Mitchell and "Holiday Pageant" by Michael Winerip. In "Lady Olga", I thought it was quite interesting to hear about the life of a "circus freak" and how lonely it can be being the outcast because of being a woman with facial hair. I thought the writing in his was really good and really dove into her perspective, and it was an overall great profile piece. I really loved the part about Edelweiss the cat It was cute, and I also love cats, so I enjoyed that part of the essay. "Holiday Pageant" however, was very short, and was really cute and touching, but I think that it lacked a good writing style and it definitely lacked detail for sure. Out of the two, I would have to say that "Lady Olga" was the better essay.