Dolores was a very interesting girl. She was a waitress who had broken up with her husband in which he left her 3 children and lots of debt. She was forced to become a waitress because it was the only way to make quick money. She says, "I have to be a waitress. How else can I learn about people? How else does the world come to me? I can't go to everyone. So they have to come to me. Everyone wants to eat, everyone has hunger. And I serve them. If they've had a bad day, I nurse them, cajole them. Myave with coffee I give them a little philosophy. they have cocktails, I give them political science" (330). This is an incredibly interesting quote because she takes her very demeaning job, as she puts it, and turns it into something optimistic. She eventually tells us that she likes her job and that she enjoys the conversations that she has with people.
Mike Lefevre had a different kind of story. I thought the beginning of the story was the most significant because he layed out his perspective of his job. Unlike Dolores, he didn't really appreciate what he did. He said, "You can't take pride anymore....It's hard to take pride in a bridge you're never going to cross, in a door you're never gonna open. You're mass-producing things and you never see the end result of it" (319). This is the exact opposite to what Dante said. Dante could have looked at her job and said, 'I never get to eat anything that my costumers eat which sucks.' That is kind of what Lefevre is saying here. He isn't appreciating the fact that he is helping out the community by building that road, by making that door, by building a house. These are all important features to a successful society, and he is a major part of it that he doesn't originally appreciate.
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