Elizabeth Morris' essay "The Tyranny of Things" is a short essay that talks about the cumbersome nature of material things in an individual's life. Morris talks of how one must be so cramped with the things that he/she puts up or have. She also talks of how a person's attention and time and energy is spent on worrying about things that have no such full meaning for her/his life.
In the essay, the speaker talks of how she had once went to stay in a house by the sea. The room was devoid of any unnecessary material thing except some bare necessities. This was what she wanted, n empty space where there is nothing to distract you. Morris states that "<em>There was nothing in the house to demand care, to claim attention, to cumber my consciousness with its insistent, unchanging companionship</em>", which to her was the best thing. She felt free and enjoyed it there, for there ws nothing that could demand her attention.
