Not being in the lower class is a privilege to the people who see how difficult it is to live in those conditions and imagine what it would be like to have to live off of lower class jobs. Barbara Ehrenreich saw this and decided that she wanted to see what it would be like and experience the hardship that they go through. Barbara discusses the difficulty of living in the lower class with the use of her first point of view/ honesty and her use of figurative language. In the novel, “Nickel and Dimed”, Barbara Ehrenreich uses a sarcastic, dramatic tone to support her argument that people who live in the lower class have a difficult time getting by with the present American economy.
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