Last American Man

Eustace is both the "last American Man" and just a different sort of modern man. While he lives in the woods and acts like the early American men and settlers, he isn't entirely the last American Man. He uses skills that he might, at first, deny he even has, like accounting and business, in a world where he doesn't think people should really have to deal with that. He had to use all of these skills in order to gain his land for Turtle Island. Also, while he says he is this frontier man, he spends a good portion of his time living in hotels or houses, while he is on his educational tours. Real frontier men practiced what they preached, and didn't make exceptions to their daily lives every once and a while. The idea of an American man generally a good idea, but in the context they want it in it is a bad one. It is a very rare occurrence and an almost impossible feat. Societies change, and the people in the societies change. The old American men didn't have to worry necessarily on who owned land and other items Eustace has to take care of in today society. It would be impossible for him to be this last American man in the original since, because the idea of what an American man has changed so much in history. The men in today's world are not like their forefathers, but even those men were not real "American men." Many of them weren't even from America, let alone live in the wilderness.