Nickel and Dimed Chapter Three Review
Selling in Minnesota
Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, once more set her dreams on a fresh, idealized part of the country, Minnesota, where she hoped to get a slight more pleasant environment compared to her experience. However, Ehrenreich's hopes once again meet with a rough dosage of reality that she releases a defensive tone through a creep in her writing as if she has detected her enterprise is coming to existence: “If any enterprising journalist needs to experiment a low-wage form of life in the darkest Louisiana or Idaho, chief power to her. Name me gutless, but whatever I was searching for this period was a correspondence comfort between the rent and income, a few temperate adventures, a smooth landing (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 69).” Inclusion, through her persistence investigation she proves that hitting the full rock is a fact: there is high rent rates and too low wage rates in America.
Additionally, Ehrenreich realizes the high demand for certain low-wage employees to deploy a compelling way of action, which should not be done out of desire but because of need. Also, she identifies the existing physical dangers in the low-wage areas, the separation between them and the high-wage class as well as the existence of people alienation. Further, her motel brings out the clear danger expressions: “The poor women really are exposed to fear in comparison to those who own houses with the double locks, dogs, alarm systems, and husbands.” Ehrenreich also concluded on this by saying; “I must theoretically know this or at least overheard it, but now for the first time the findings take hold (Ehrenreich, 2001, p. 99).” Intriguingly, Ehrenreich seems to postulate a possible different role away that she could be of great help to the entire low-wage workers as a revolution catalyst as well as strike news spreader, which are the real, undeniable characteristics of Wal-Mart and its entire workforce.
References
Ehrenreich, B. (2001). Nickel and dimed. New York: Metropolitan Books.
