Barbara moves from Maine to Minnesota. She ends up in the apartment of a friend of a friend. She starts looking for a job but learns most of them require drug tests. She has to detox because she smoked marijuana. She passes both her Wal-Mart and Menards tests. She finds out that she will be making ten dollars an hour at Menards and only seven at Wal-Mart. She has a tough time looking for apartments and for the short term moves into the Hill View motel. I found it interesting that she revealed to the reader that she had done drugs. Up until that point I never thought that she would use drugs, but after reading it, it’s not too unbelievable. She could have left it out to make herself look more superior. But she left it in, making her seem more like the people who apply for low wage jobs. She came off as more of realistic person for the job.
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