Henry's Room

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I want to learn or at have a glimpse as to why the narrator is so reluctant to follow in the footsteps of Thoreau? Is it something about the Walden experiment or the mythology about his self imposed isolation? Is that's what's hinted at in the reference to company? I think reluctance to follow a man the narrator clearly admires is where the tension is in this piece. I'd like you to draw it out.