’’Digging in the Trash’’ is an essay from the online magazine called The Bitter Southerner, July 2017, written by David Joy (b. 1983), who was an American writer who grew up in the North Carolina. In his essay, David Joy brings light to the struggle of less privileged people. The people who were struggling to survive and the people who, in the end, didn’t make it. He sheds light on how hard it is to be at the lowest. And how the privileged people know nothing about it. Throughout the text he touches other themes underlying the main theme ‘’poverty’’. He makes good use of using his own personal experience to support his statements. That is why I am going to analyze and comment on the essay, where I will be focusing on how David Joy uses his personal experiences and the themes found in the essay.
He starts off by describing a very positive and colorful environment, where the sun is shining, the grass is waving and flickering. Overall a good weather. But the good feeling starts to go away, when he says ‘’ […] we eased along a dirt road just a few minutes from where we lived to the trailer where my grandfather survived.’’ (p. 7, l. 4-6) The word ‘’survived’’ starts to bring up some worst possible scenarios that might have happen. It gets confirmed, when David Joy begins to describe his grandfather. He talks about how crazy his grandfather’s life was. How he was married to a ‘’crazy-haired woman named Dez.’’ (p. 7, l. 22-23) Dez was his grandfather’s wife, who shot him. Even after going through something that horrific by someone you’re married to, he still decides to go back to her. And his reason was because ‘’she was what kept him from drowning.’’. (p. 7, l. 55) In the sense, she was something that made him survive.
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