Nickel and Dimed Study Guide

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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com PinkMonkey® Literature Notes on . . . Nickel and Dimed :On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 MonkeyNotes Study Guide by Laurie Lahey Reprinted with permission from TheBestNotes.com Copyright © 2006, All Rights Reserved Distribution without the written consent of TheBestNotes.com is strictly prohibited. TheBestNotes.com. Copyright © 2006, All Rights Reserved. No further distribution without written consent. 1 Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com SETTING During the course of this investigation Ehrenreich visits three places: Florida, Maine, and Minnesota. She begins her research in Florida because it is close to home. She goes to Maine because there is a virtually all-white lowwage workforce. She chooses Minnesota more or less at random; although finally decides to go because she in under the impression that there is an abundance of jobs and homes there. CHARACTER LIST Barbara Ehrenreich - Ehrenreich is the author of this work. She attempts to find out if single mothers could make ends meet with low-wage jobs and no Welfare assistance. Lewis Lapham - Lapham is the editor of Harper’s, with whom Ehrenreich develops the idea for her investigation. Gail - Gail is the “middle-aged wiry waitress” from the Hearthside; she is responsible for training Ehrenreich. Billy - Billy is a cook at the Hearthside. He has a temper and is frequently mean to the female servers. Lionel - Lionel is the Haitian busboy at the Hearthside. Timmy - Timmy is the fourteen-year-old white busboy at the Hearthside. Joan - Joan is the “svelte fortyish hostess” at the Hearthside. Phillip - Phillip is a manager at the Hearthside. Stu - Stu is a cook at the Hearthside. Joy - Joy is “a plump, blowsy woman in her early thirties”; she is a manager

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