Analysis Of July: Buy Some Happiness From The Happiness Project By Gretchen Rubin

In the chapter “July: Buy Some Happiness” from The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, sets out to find out how money affects a person’s happiness. She first introduces the reader as to why she is interested in finding out how money affects happiness and what money actually is. Throughout the chapter, the author gives the reader some background to what she had been doing throughout her year and why money was her focus on the month of July. Through her argument she presents her audience with the reasons as to why she believes that money can be used to buy happiness. With her attempts at making the reader reflect upon their own happiness, providing the purpose behind her research, and using relatable experiences she makes her argument very strong and comes to the …show more content…
As part of her research Rubin underwent a year-long experiment where she examined her behaviors as well as her interactions with others and documented them by months. The focus of her month of July was to find out if people could, in fact, buy happiness. Early in this chapter Rubin says, “I asked myself, ‘Can money help buy happiness?’ The answer: yes, used wisely, it can. Whether rich or poor people make choices about how they spend money, and those choices can boost happiness or undermine it” (293). By letting her audience know that happiness can be bought if the right choices are made, she effectively engages the interest of the reader even further; Whether they agree or disagree, the attempt to pique the reader’s interest is strong and effective. After saying that both rich or poor can be influenced by their financial decisions and both are able to buy their own happiness, she strengthens her statement and those who may have thought “the poor can’t buy happiness; only the rich can. I don’t have that kind of money” are influenced to continue reading about how they, too, can buy