Analysis Of The Worst Years Of Our Lives By Barbara Ehrenreich

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In the passage The Worst Years of Our Lives by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author portrays her opinion on society in the 1980's and their television habits. Ehrenreich begins by describing her own experience when she discovered that the American people were turning into "root vegetables" and that it was different than when the television era first began because people did many of the things that were shown on television. Versus now where people just sit all day watching tv almost never doing what is being shown in "real life". Ehrenreich's assertions about television are definitely true. Since the 1980's to now television plays a huge part to everyday life and not in positive ways.

When the television era first began it was almost seen as a luxury,
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