I know that Dr. Sexson always talks about how often in the Bible we miss the story for the moral but I respectfully disagree. I do not think that the purpose of the writer of Ecclesiastes goal was to tell a really depressing story in the form of poem just for the sake of a really depressing story. There must be a moral other wise what makes the Bible any different than any other novel? So than I started thinking about why Ecclesiastes was chosen/divined to be in the Bible. What is the reader supposed to gain from the text? Truthfully, I am not sure. My guess is this: the author is fed up with this life. He is tired of work, play, sleep and basically everything in between; simly dissatisfied. This made me think of a quote by C.S. Lewis. Im guessing as to the exact words but it goes something like this, "If I find myself with a longing that nothing on earth seems to fill, than chances are I was made for another world." I would agree with this statement as would the author of Ecclesiastes. I think that the moral of the story, and yes, I do think there is one, is that we should allow our pleasure in this world to trump what we could experience in the next.