Question 1
Joey Franklin feels the need to justify the fact that he works at Wendy’s because he thinks that even though the job is demeaning, he is able to provide for his family and that the job pays an honest wage. Franklin’s feeling of justifying working at Wendy’s begins when he is embarrassed and uncomfortable because of his high qualifications, when he recognizes a member of his Boy Scout working at the restaurant. Notably, this shows that his initial attitude toward working at Wendy’s was that of embarrassment.
Being a college student who is two semesters away from graduation, Franklin wants to support his wife in her endeavors to complete her last semester of college. Franklin’s self-consciousness allows him to be transparent regarding his encounters with various people. Because he lives few blocks away from the restaurant, he is confronted by the fact that he will be serving late-night drive-through customers whom he recognizes.
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Franklin notes that he normally sees parents of scouts he works with, or a friend from school who pull up to the window and wonders why he works at the restaurant. He explains to them that the job is temporary and allows him to work at night so that he can take care of his son during the day when his wife is at school.
In the bathroom, a man asks him whether he has ever thought about college. Franklin feels the need of explaining to him that he is two semesters away from graduating, but shrugs off and tell him that he will work at Wendy’s until his wife finishes college.
Franklin feels the need to justify himself to his father while talking to him over the phone. His father pauses when Franklin says that he works at Wendy’s. Franklin tells his father that he needed a job that he could do at night and that the job at the computer shop was over. He wondered what his father’s reaction would have been if he had chosen to acquire student loans instead of working part-time.
