On Dumpster Diving Tone. Throughout both wallaces’s essay, “consider the lobster”, and eighner’s “on dumpster diving”, authors offer perspectives on food, ethics, and the way. He lives in a small apartment in austin and continues to scavenge.

Eighner stated “i like the frankness of the word scavenging. He begins this journey by defining dumpster diving and describing what it is. Eighner states that dumpster diving isn’t by any means glamorous, but that it is very practical means for somebody in a situation like his.