In a world where everything is based on competition and success, there will always be people who do not succeed in life. In the case of those individuals, social inheritance can have a comprehensive influence on their life and how they choose to live their life. A factor that many people do not think about, which means that many people are placed in stereotypical boxes, such as poor or drug addicts, if they live in a trailer park. David Joy’s essay, “Digging in the Trash”, was published in the online magazine The Bitter Southerner, in July 2017. The essay explores a current widespread issue in USA, namely living in poverty and its consequences.
Throughout the essay, David uses various personal experiences to argue for his cause. He starts out by telling about his grandfather and how the extreme use of alcohol effected his life to the worse.
“His survival was a matter of stubbornness and anger. His survival was a matter of looking bitterly at the hand he’d been dealt and saying, ‘Sorry, boys, but I ain’t done playing” (ll. 73-77)
In other words, David is showing that his grandfather’s less acceptable behaviour was because of his social inheritance. The grandfather wasn’t a wealthy man, diametrically opposed actually, he lived in poverty which David believes can be an excuse for how his grandfather behaved as a person. He was a true victim of his circumstances, and that effected David´s father.
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