Chunk # 2 of Nickled and Dimed

In the second chapter of Nickled and Dimed Barbara becomes a dietry aid and a maid. She does well with them both and she becomes a very good dietry. All she had to do was clean up after a few elderly people and wash dishes and vacuum. Her being a maid wasn't so bad either. But then she starts to feel that she is less than what she is. She feels that the wealthy people that she clean up after looks down on her and that she is no more a wealthy person like them but an underpaid worker for them. They make her feel bad and gets her angry by doing that. Because she is feeling this way she begins to act unprofessional and acts up towards her male supervisor Ted. She do make new friends by taking up for them from Ted causing her to get a raise and respect. Then she realizes that she should move on from that job because she is not liking the treatments that come along with it. After revealing herself to the workers before she left she stirred up thoughts from them that wondered why she had been undercover and also she made someone feel modivated by her analysis.



Questions:
Because Barbara was feeling like she was worth less than what she was because she was a maid she became a little hostile an unprofessional. Do you feel she should have acted the way she acted or do you feel that she should have just quitted and left it alone?

Barbara felt that wealthy people can talk down on middle class people simply because they make more money. In reality, is this true? Or do people with wealth actually respect the middle class people?