Serving In Florida Rhetorical Analysis

Dr. Barbara Ehrenreich got the idea to move to the expensive town of Key West, Florida, and to start living on a minimum wage salary. In “Serving in Florida,” doctor in cell biology, Barbara Ehrenreich, explains her studies of living a low wage lifestyle and concludes that it is possible but you will have numerous financial struggles. She began her journey looking through help wanted ads and saw a certain job that she would like to stay away from, waitressing, from memories of when she was a teen and still having physical problems to this day. She stumbles upon housekeeping jobs that appear to be an easy job since she does it in her own house. Ehrenreich begins visiting different types of hotels and starts applying. After a few days, she feels unsuccessful about her previous visits to hotels because she hasn’t …show more content…
Her writing style is not formal but her writing style is more relatable to the readers such as myself. While I was reading the article, it made me feel that I was going through the experiment, job searching, bad management attitudes with her even thought I was not. Ehrenreich states, “Managers can sit for hours at a time if they want but it’s their job to see that no one else ever does.” I can relate to what the previous quote said, I work at a grocery store and my managers sit or eat on the job all the time. It made it more clear of how living on a budget can be with a low wage salary. I realize that life is full of decisions and making sacrifices but when you’re on a budget, you must make harder ones. Ehrenreich writes “You go without routine care or prescription and end up paying the price.” As reading this quote, I thought that even medical decisions affect if you’re on a low wage budget. After reading the article, I got an inside look on how some people might live and how difficult low wage salaries can affect the financial needs in your

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