“Between us are the rat-race millions who have confounded their selves with the objects they grasp… I am sorry for them” (Eighner 6).
• He wants to share his experiences as a dumpster diver or “scavenger” to make people stop and think about their own desire to acquire and their wasteful habits.
“…if I could I would naturally prefer to live the comfortable consumer life, perhaps – and only perhaps – as a slightly less wasteful