In One Hundred demons, Barry illustrates moments in her life that we’re most impactful to her. In “My First Job”, she gives her experience in the real world and her struggle to have a purpose there. “Rippy, when do I get paid… he said talk to you”. What makes this interesting to me is the normalcy in it. Meaning, the struggle to have a voice in a place where you might seem strange in. Also, the names Rippy and Scamy gives the tone of the situation and also part of the outcome.
I didn’t fully understand what you meant by “Rippy and Scamy gives the tone of the situation and also part of the outcome.” But I do agree that these names makes the story feel like they were being mean to her and that they were just using her after all. By having Rippy telling her “talk to you” just makes me feel that he was not going to talk to her and deep down she knew this as well. This part of the story is really sad, it is like she was trying to make her life better by having a job and being in another type of environment; but like always she is treated badly and no one pays attention to her or what she got to say.