Meaning is constructed through two mediums; the use of language and the recency bias. Use of language is apparent in the phrases, ‘many moods’, ‘cats run-dog revel’, ‘shoes, open-toed or closed’, and ‘life-giving, and life taking!’. The phrases cited above, hint at the readers to interpret the author’s message. One interprets many moods as the drizzling or storm, the connection to cats and dogs as raining like cats and dogs, shoe selection as to what to wear such that their shoes aren’t ruined because of the water and life-giving and taking, as to how the rain helps the farmers in their yield and how lack of it, such as droughts could be threatening to their livelihood.

However, since there is a recency bias linked to it, one could interpret the message expressed by the author from a different perspective. Like I for one linked it to the dismal modernized lifestyle, where there are ups and downs thus, different moods, cats are compared to women-since they are always running to multi-task; handling the household chores, working, and raising their children; and the dogs are symbolizing the extreme lower class due to the widened monetary gap between the rich and the poor, who out of their doomed luck are revealing on the streets. Further linking the fashion talks to how pressurizing the modernized lifestyle has become in terms of fashion, as to the paramount importance dress code has now started receiving. Lastly, relating life-giving and talking is like a double-edged sword, since the upper rich class gets all the luxury and the perks, whereas, the lower class has to suffer.

To wrap up, the recent events that took place in my life, constructed a different meaning of the same source for me. Just like how it did for my fellow classmate who interpreted and expressed it with the leitmotif of ‘matters of the heart’. Therefore, meaning is constructed, negotiated, expressed, and interpreted through the use of diction and the recency bias.