People who are able to hold wads of money in their pockets are the ones to say that money is not the key to happiness. William Hazlitt, author of “On the Want of Money”, disagrees against them. In his opening statement, he states an argument that “one cannot get on well in the world without money.” Using interesting syntactic strategies, hyperboles, and dispirited diction, he shows that if money cannot buy happiness, it could lead to people living a life in sorrow. Hazlitt’s dispirited diction promotes the importance of money. He emphasizes the words “literally” and “truly” in the first line to show that this is the real world and people need to be realistic. Many would believe in fairy tales could say that happiness has no connection to wealth but Hazlitt makes the audience see everyone in is in the real world is what matters. In his essay, Hazlitt also uses a strong cynical diction to exploit how the verbs in the essay all come together meaning the same thing; beggars would not be “asked out to dinner”, “noticed in the streets”, “neglected”, “assailed” and all around abused. The meaning of the diction is clear, underprivileged men do not have an exciting life. The verbs used are all passive, showing that the lower class man do not decide their own path but allow the higher class to decide for them. Adding to his strong use of diction, he uses interesting syntactic strategies to display his view on poverty. The author increases the depth and intensity of the essay by creating a mass sentence, which takes up about two or three paragraphs. Since Hazlitt wants to effectively develop his position that money is an essential in life, he puts his whole reasoning into one long sentence. The extended sentence is symbolic because it could represent the long obstacle course the poor must in live every day. Within the sentence, Hazlitt’s word choice gives the reader a vivid image of the poor’s live statin