He with the most toys gets to heaven first. This in a sense is Ciardi’s stance on the western idea of happiness. He states that because of the constitution, we as Americans are born with the right to pursue happiness, and as a society we have taken this as the idea that we need to buy our way into it. “We…seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough.” Ciardi points out that this is a result of American commercialism. The media uses advertising to show us all that we need to have and look like to be happy. Obviously we must buy these things in order to be this way.

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