Nickle and Dimed

In the book, Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, a well off women living the live of a low class worker, discovers what it is like to live as a under payed, hard working employee who is barley getting by. Barbara meets a few people throughout the book who help her learn the ropes at her jobs such as Gail, and George. She also meets Pete in Maine who is a friendly cook who goes on cigerette breaks with her. Ehrenreich travels from Florda, to Maine to Minnesota, taking underpaying jobs while struggling to find shelter, tansportation and food month by month. Barbara has many jobs throughout the book such as, waitressing, employee at Wal-Mart, a food service worker in a nursing home and a maid. She seem to observe her coworkers lives and how the American economy negativly effects them, as it does to her. The author makes it clear in the book that Barbara is affraid and is very strong as poverty makes its way into her life. The tone the author uses has fear and it really potreys how Barbara feels to the reader making me want to read more. The book really focuses on Ehrenrich's struggles, and her views. Since Barbara knows what its like to be mentally drained by a job that doesnt pay enough for all the hard work she puts into it, she thinks that employees should be payed more, and have more bennifits. The flow and determination in the book really makes it interesting to read. After reading this novel, i agree with what Barbara is thinking with making pay higher or giving health bennifits to low paying employees, because she goes through such a hard time to just get by when she works so hard.