Walden | Characters
The Canadian Woodchopper
The woodchopper does his work in Walden Woods, and he and Thoreau often visit. He is a big, strong, good-natured man who works hard and is content with his life although he makes little money. He knows how to read and enjoys reading the works of Homer even though he doesn’t understand them. After getting to know the woodchopper, Thoreau concludes, ‘‘The intellectual and what is called spiritual man in him were slumbering as in an infant.’’
James Collins
James Collins is an Irishman who works for the railroad and lives...
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