Why don’t we complain?

Why don’t we complain?
By Wiliam F. Buckley, Jr.

This essay begin in a train where a man is sweating and has to take off not only his overcoat, but his jacket while the temperature outside is below freezing. As he is thinking about this the train conductor comes in and starts to ask for tickets. He notices how everyone just quietly gives him the ticket without even speaking to him. He then becomes very decided to complain about the situation, but once he is about to he changes his question to what time they would arrive because of how people where looking at him. As it turns out he continues to discuss how it is not only in the train, but at the movie theater where the screen is out of focus. Then he explains that as Americans we have now decided to let the complaining to others and as it did in the train and the movie theater everyone was expecting for someone else to complain and that is why everyone sat through that huge oven and how everyone watched a movie uncomfortably. We are scared of portraying our views and people thinking they are unjust or vague. Mr. Buckley also talks about other occasion where he has not given his opinion or exercised his ability to complain and instead conformed. This essay is very true although I am not like the author I do complain when I think it is needed, but sometime like him I hold back because all eyes are on me and it is uncomfortable as people make me seem like an alien.