Pardon, but I couldn’t help laughing at the irony of that. What if, in the rewrite, you reversed the scenario? As in, the first paragraph is a setup describing how horrid the place is, which is what the character anticipates it to be since that’s always how it is, but from the second paragraph on it turns into a beatific wonderland. And the character is confused as all hell, with no throwaways to scrounge and the clean colors of the place almost hurting his eyes. Maybe people at the place keep trying to push generous free samples on him, fresh, perfectly ripe, etc. and he struggles to respond to the offers in an accepting manner, suspecting, what, I don’t know?
Not sure of the specifics of the rewrite, not my place to inject such ideas either. Have fun with it Andy.