Edgar Albert Guest in his poem ‘The Stick-together Families’ describes how the family members of the stick-together families are happy. The members of the stick-together family are the happiest people. In some families the brothers and sisters are not together. Happlest people are those whose family members sit in a circle at the fireside. The best convention is that the family members sit together after the day’s work is done. Many people are ready to break the family ties to search for pleasure. They wander and meet strangers. They get only bitterness and empty joy. The wisest children are those who live in a stick- together family.

Some people think that to be happy they must roam around. For them strange friends are the true friends. They waste their lives in searching for joy in far-off places. But the happiest people are those who sit together as brothers and sisters to share their fun. The stick-together family gets the joy of the earth. The old home gives them happiness and it has gladdest playground. The poet asks the people who wander here and there to find pleasure to come back to their fireside to get true happiness.