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Explain what you think Thoreau’s simile “We live meanly, like ants” mean.?
Excerpt from Where I Lived and What I Lived For
The Book is "Walden"
1 Answer
- ?Lv 77 months ago
I think he is describing how most peoples' existence consists of year after year of going to work, having a couple days off a week, and maybe a two week vacation each year. Many of us don't have time, or don't make the time, or don't even care to contemplate existence itself. We "jump when the boss says jump", following the bidding of some corporate, governmental or societal leader, much like ants essentially following the orders of their queen.