Barbara Ehrenreich spend a month in each of three places—Key West, Portland-Maine, and Minneapolis
The novel Nickel and Dimed is written by researcher Barbara Ehrenreich, a middle aged upper-class woman. This novel details Ehrenreich’s study of the average, lower class, working woman. The author knows though, that she truly couldn't perfectly conduct this experiment to replicate her life as the “average woman”. She did not have children to bog her down and deplete her salary. The main point of the first two chapters of the novel is that being educated and wealthy doesn't necessarily qualify a person for any occupation. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to try several different jobs in different places. First, she went to Key West, FL. She rented
The novel Nickel and Dimed is written by researcher Barbara Ehrenreich, a middle aged upper-class woman. This novel details Ehrenreich’s study of the average, lower class, working woman. The author knows though, that she truly couldn't perfectly conduct this experiment to replicate her life as the “average woman”. She did not have children to bog her down and deplete her salary. The main point of the first two chapters of the novel is that being educated and wealthy doesn't necessarily qualify a person for any occupation. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to try several different jobs in different places. First, she went to Key West, FL. She rented