Memorable Quotes

Memorable Quotes

By: Elias Dorsey

Authors Note: I wrote this piece on the quote "I can sell anybody anything." Enjoy.

            The book “Rules of the Road” by Joan Bauer, is about a young girl named Jenna who has many family problems and insecurities. She only longs for a way to escape from her life. So when Mrs. Gladstone, her boss at the shoe company she works at called Gladstone shoes, offers her a chauffeur job. She jumps on it. So she drives Mrs. Gladstone across the country, searching the different branches of Gladstone shoes. One of the most memorable quotes happens rather early into the book. The quote is “I can sell anybody anything.” I think this quote is important because that ability comes into play later in the book when she displays it at one of the different Gladstone Shoes stores

She displays it when she is sent in to spy on the different Gladstone shoe stores, when the lazy store clerk gives terrible customer service to the paying mother of five. First he doesn’t measure the child’s shoes size. Jenna took care of it. Then he doesn’t accept her coupons for the shoes explaining that she couldn’t afford it without them. Jenna takes action by getting the authorities involved. The quote is rather straight forward and true as displayed above. Also, by saying this it shows that she loves and appreciates her job more than most people. She does it better too.

            When you sum it up the quote is important because it exposes the kind of person she is. Hardworking, loyal, and highly efficient. Also, I think that she likes to help people. Even if she was hesitant to accepting the chauffer offer at first she followed through with it. She did it rather well too.