Night Waitress" by Lynda Hull is a poem that describes the feelings of a waitress that works the night shift of a diner

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Reflection of “Night Waitress”

        “Night Waitress” by Lynda Hull is a poem that describes the feelings of a waitress that works the night shift of a diner. The speaker obviously belongs to a lower social class, in the way of income and her occupation. Much like the character in this poem, the speaker in “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake works long, hard hours as a chimneysweeper. These two characters are both related in their ways of life and their classes in our society. They both make just enough money to get by and often think about what it would be like to be of a higher class.

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        In “Night Waitress” the speaker often brings up the thought of feeling of feeling trapped in her private world. She is most likely going to be doing what she is now for the rest of her life, unless she would come across something else by chance. The poem of the chimneysweeper shows a young man who is forced to work to earn money for his family. With working at such a young age and not furthering his education he does not have a very good chance of doing anything else for a living. He did not choose to have this ...

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