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The book Nickel and Dimed is about a woman who does undercover research on the subject of living the life of a low-wage worker. Ni divided into five parts including an introduction and epilogue sort of chapter. The idea for this book is excellent. Being able to see myself standing in another persons shoes added an effect of not only pity but I also felt embarrassment for being a person who “has” the ability to buy things I want. It introduces a class of people that many forget about. There was insight to the fact that maybe a person on welfare needs to be there not because they do not work hard enough but because the way society is setup they were doomed to fail from the beginning. For example, her personal experiences described give the reader knowledge that unless you are “Superman” you can almost never work enough to get ahead in life, and you would not have enough time to “go to college” to gain the education for a higher paying job. The first person point-of-view personalizes the book and that allowed me to be drawn into the storyline and plot completely. Some ways she handled some situations angered me and there were parts of the book that I did not like but all these attributes in the end showed a human spirit