Night Waitress by Lynda Hull
Night waitress by Lynda Hull is a poem about a waitress that works the night shift of a diner. From reading the poem I can see that the author of the poem is from a lower social class. That’s because the speaker have a very detail description on how the waitress feel. At the same time in the poem the speaker often brings up how the waitress feel when she see what is going on around her. Is most likely the waitress will do this job for the rest of her life, because she is from a lower social class and she is not highly educated. Even she had never dreamed about becoming a waitress at a small diner.
The poem had also talked about desire, yearning and belong. The waitress has a desire to hear a song that can “rolls through the night like a big Cadillac”. She wants a song that plays along slowly but can surely help her thought her long night from working. At the same time the waitress wants a strong, melodic and smooth song across the air. The uses of Cadillac is just to help to sets a mood of Fords, so the reader can get a better understanding of the poem. The reader steps inside the waitress shoes and feel what she is feeling.