The “New York Garbage Man,” shines a whole new light on what it means to be a garbageman. A job that most people look down upon nowadays, is admired, and described by  White as being one most people should envy. The garbageman, to White is a symbol of freedom, and power. White raises them on a pedestal, as if he is describing a powerful executive in a large company, not someone who picks up after everyone else. “The jolly, jolly garbageman goes banging down the street without a thought for anyone.”  What would society do with their trash if it wasn’t picked up every morning? The city would turn in on itself, and garbage men then and now are well aware of this fact. It gives them a strange and mystical power over the streets of New York.