“2 Jobs at the Sugar Factory, and a Lump in the Throat,” by Vivian Yee is a well-written and descriptive piece that touches the reader emotionally. As an author, Yee writes the article in a way that provides readers with good knowledge of her subject and manages to keep her opinions objective. She profiles Robert Shelton, a worker at the Domino Sugar refinery, providing the reader with personal insight into Shelton’s life, experiences, and feelings towards the changes that are occurring in his world. The narrative includes descriptive language, facts, and anecdotes that detail this man’s career and hours of devotion in a sugar factory in Brooklyn. The lead begins in a dramatic way with its powerful visual description of Shelton having never seen the floor of the sugarhouse in all the 20 years he’s worked there. The nut graf is then found when the author describes the closing of the installation and states, “In a borough convulsed by change, perhaps no set of buildings carries as much symbolic freight as the Domino complex…” The Sugar Factory was more than a job to Shelton it was his life. This piece incorporates important quotes from Shelton that describe his sorrow, appreciation, and memories, as he mourns its closing and ultimate destruction of its legacy. This article achieves to connect with the reader because it’s not just an article about Shelton’s life and career, but it provides information on the sculpture’s success, purpose, process of sugar formation, and mention of future plans for the space. The author also provides a detailed account of how the heat from the kilns affected Shelton and his everyday life. The profile sums up Shelton’s background, what his parents were like, his daily schedule working 3 jobs, and what his life is like today.