Question

How is the concept of friendship portrayed in both Society and Solitude and Chapter I of Nature?
Friendship is considered to be preferable to solitude.
Friendship is considered to be valuable but not necessarily vital.
Friendship is considered to be crucial to society.
Friendship is considered to be a worthless relationship.

Answer 1

The answer is: Friendship is considered to be valuable but not necessarily vital. ... On the other hand, In “Nature” Emerson shows that the friend are trivial, that even when between the people exist close bounds each person is ultimately alone, in both text he considers the friendship trivial.