Symbolism of Coffee

I had an interview with Sarah, who is one of Saxby’s employees. She is like all of the other citizens of Strongsville who need their coffee everyday to survive. Coffee plays a large impact in her life because she works in a coffee shop and is around coffee all day, everyday. She has a very interesting opinion on what she thinks coffee symbolizes. She says, “I think it symbolizes conformity because everyone drinks it, which forms a chain of people to follow, and drink it. Also I think it symbolizes working class people who use coffee as an everyday commodity to get them through the day. Here in this shop there are so many repeat customers who come in everyday before they head off to work” (Nowhouse). Coffee symbolizes dependency, so many people get out of bed every morning and go down and get their coffee every morning, before they do anything else. They can always count on their coffee to be there to get them through the day. Its funny that one beverage has so much of an impact on most Americans and can improve their day so much by just drinking one cup of it. Coffee is like a drug, everyone who needs to have it everyday is addicted to it and it is nearly impossible to stay off it. Last she says “It is like a bridge that brings the nation together through warmth and togetherness, figuratively and literally because you feel at home when you go to a coffee shop and also it makes you warm drinking it”(Nowhouse).