Was the citizen in "The Unknown Citizer" happy ?Was he free?

W.H. Auden’s title “The Unknown Citizen” is ironic
because, in fact, much is known about the supposedly “unknown” citizen.  Like the
unknown soldier whose body has been destroyed—the allusion in the title—the  the unknown
citizen’s individuality and spirit have been destroyed: he has been reduced to
statistics.

The central point Auden makes with his
questions is that this individual is not free, nor is he happy. 
Because he  did everything that was expected of him for the “Greater Community” (line
5),  he never took a chance to learn what he wanted or to become a fully realized
individual.  He was a conformist who “was popular with his mates” (line 13), and “Social
Psychology workers” (line 12) even went so far as to note that “his reactions to
advertisements were normal in every way” (line 15).  Later we are told that he held
“proper opinions for the time of year” (line 23).  He supported war or peace, depending
on which opinion was more in vogue.  In other words, he never thought for himself but
just jumped on the popularity bandwagon.

In answer to the
questions “Was he free? Was he happy?” the speaker (not Auden)
says, “The question is absurd.”  But that’s Auden being ironic; to Auden the question is
not absurd at all. No one who sells his soul to what’s popular and expected, who never
has an original thought of his own, can truly be free.  He is constrained and even owned
by the society in which he lives.  Such a person, Auden suggests, can never be deeply
happy.