Ehrenreich uses pathos through the tone and style of her writing to help draw the reader in in order to create a connection in the point or argument that she is making. She describes in brief detail the different coworkers and customers that she comes across. When she met Benny who is a sewer repair man “who cannot even think of eating until he has absorbed a half hour of air-conditioning and ice water.” There are the German tourists, a lesbian couple, and a “kindly retired cop” named Sam. Also, as her journey of temporary living as a minimum wage worker slowly started coming to an end describing it at “plunge into poverty”. She lived in trailer homes and while in between jobs and barely starting her new job she found herself desperate to find money into to satisfy her current needs. She then goes on in a more sarcastic tone describing her housekeeping job as “landed my dream job” because, it’s like whose dream is it to be a house keeper? Serving …show more content…
It shows though she was ignoring how hard each day was trying to live life as a minimum wage worker overall, she was still able to get a laugh out of the entire own situation as a whole. It’s also a creative way to keep the readers interested in order for them to understand and want to actually know about the process of the poor. For example, Ehrenreich explains how one impatient black couple that was waiting for her to get around to taking their order looked "ready to summon the NAACP." Later she then talks about how an available room at one of her motel choices is on the ground floor of a "well-traveled commercial street, meaning you have a choice between privacy and light." Her colorful humor brings a needed light to the otherwise sad feeling of the desperate masses living in poverty in the