Serving in Florida by: Barbra Ehrenreich

Barbra Ehrenreich writes a very descriptive personal narrative with deep insight into the low wage American workplace. Based on an experiment by the author, who is exploring the low wage working place by waiting tables at a commercial chain res truant and housecleaning at a nearby hotel. The author gets more than she can handle trying to keep up with two jobs and and the amounting bills that she's trying to meet. From her sceptical tone throughout her experiment, she seems as if she's trying to expose the destitute and impracticability of the low wage lifestyle.
The authors rhetoric is very descriptive, beginning her paper outlining a variety of disgusting foods, and talking about digestive details of fried foods going on and on sharing what she must have felt walking into this atmosphere. The focus throughout this paper is very negative, you can tell the author is very disgusted by every thing she's experiencing and wants her readers to feel how despicable this world is. The way she describes her job it seems like slavery not a healthy respectable working atmosphere, from the attitude of her boss to the ungrateful customers she's serving who don't pay her any respect. There's no time to break for lunch or go to the bathroom, as the physical demands of the job bring out pains in her body to which she cannot address.
The authors experience is very effective, providing a first hand account of this minimum wage world and illustrating how unjust and overwhelming it can be. It's is also clear that this is exactly what the author wanted to expose, her entire focus is on the ugly side of this life style, directing attention on how difficult it is, how ugly, how detrimental it is to the people and to our society.