Later in ¨Serving in Florida¨ Ehrenreich uses more rhetorical strategies to further prove her purpose that low income Americans do not have many choices to make ends meet. Ehrenreich uses metaphors, ¨The kitchen is a cavern, a stomach leading to the lower intestine that is the garbage...¨ (29) like this to describe the terrible conditions of the restaurant where she waitresses. In such grotesque description, this puts the audience in a sickened state of mind. A worker with options would not choose to work in such a gross working environment. The author also uses her new point of view to show how her life before had so many options. Ehrenreich explains her point of view now, ¨...phone messages addressed to myself come from a distant race of people with exotic concerns and far too much time on their hands¨ (34) contrasting her life from before this experiment elaborately helps support Ehrenreich’s purpose that low income workers are limited. Ehrenreich points out that she took little things for granted, because now she does not have any extra time. Another metaphor used to prove her purpose is when Ehrenreich has become a cleaner at a hotel too and is ¨forced to pay for our presence with backaches and perpetual thirst” (43). The use of a metaphor helps truly show the readers that working low income jobs are not only are attached with a paycheck, but also injuries. The people who must work these jobs are trapped with these ¨backaches¨ because of the limited options they find themselves with. Ehrenreich's purpose is clear because she would not chose this job with the backaches and thirst, but desperate times call for desperate measures. One day when Ehrenreich is waitressing a restaurant becomes very hectic. Most of the day is “lost in the fog of war” (47) because of the high demand of orders, and not enough staff. The author’s purpose in including stories like this are to help readers visualize and feel how tough working for such little money can be. Ehrenreich was not actually in war, but says the day is like war, to prove it is horrible and draining. 

Ehrenreich also uses repetition in her sentence structure to reflect the repetitive nature of her daily life in Minnesota. With her new job at walmart comes a back pain that cannot heal on its own. She writes, “Go to bed with a backache, wake up with a backache,” (Ehrenreich 132). Her repeating the statement shows how relentless her pain is and how tired she is of her life in Minnesota. Later in the section, Ehrenreich uses the same strategy the demonstrate her frustration with her sleeplessness in the motel. She writes, “I sleep and wake up, sleep and wake up again,” (Ehrenreich 152). This sentence conveys her tiredness of the situation and the drove of daily life there. Through her repetition the reader can conclude that Barbara is not happy in her situation and barely scraping by, much like the many others surviving solely off of minimum wage. 

As the chapter progresses, Ehrenreich's opinions become much more powerful. She often comments on her conditions and speak of them despicably. Her distaste for her place of poverty only grows through the chapter. The back breaking labor of cleaning is continuously in ways such as asking if homeowners realize “The misery that goes into rendering their homes model-perfect?” (89). Even her word choice changes, words such as “sadistic” (89) increase in her vocabulary. No doubt, these words are used to comment on the horrible conditions and work that maids have to endure. However, Barbara Ehrenreich also becomes slightly demeaning. After Holly falls ill the author remarks that she finally has “purpose more compelling” than just cleaning and polishing (97). This is insulting to maids, however maids are probably not her target audience anyway and she probably realizes that.