The Garbage Man by Sharon Curtin is a narrative story about an older man who nobody ever talks to or has never seen his face. Why was the garbage man disliked? Was he a threat to the community? In my opinion, he was not a threat to the community. He never bothered anybody; he just walked through alleys digging through other people’s garbage. The reason I think that he was so disliked is that he did not meet up to others people’s standards. Nobody else in the community was digging through the garbage, so with him being the only one in the community digging through garbage that was why he was so dislike in my opinion.
In the story there was a little girl that decided to stock the garbage man. She followed him everywhere in went through the town. After so long, her following the garbage man basically became a game for the two of them. The girl honestly only followed him because she was bored during her summer break. She never had the courage to walk up to him and ask him his name, why he was digging through garbage, or just to see what he looked like. She had to get some friends together and come up with a plan, so that she could see the garbage man’s face. They went through with the plan but she never saw the garbage man face after all.
The garbage man was so disliked that kids came up with a song for him. In my opinion with the kids making fun of him all the time and teasing him, how could he have self confidence? I know that digging through the garbage is gross and nasty but he may not have had an option. He might have been very poor and couldn’t afford to buy his chickens food or he might have been very rich. If he was rich, he did not want people to know because when your rich people keep asking you for money. The community should have ask him if he need help due to money issues or whatever it might have been.
