On one hand, Eustace does seem to fill many of the criteria important to be a transcendentalist. For instance, his fight with the dear undoubtedly culminates nature, and also his outdoors living off the land in many ways mirrors transcendentalist ideas. However, Eustace has later in his life gotten away from these transcendentalist notions, consumed by his need to spread his message towards perspective audiences and his apprentices. While he can still till a field and appreciate nature, he simply is too commercialized to be a true transcendentalist. It is possible, that if Emerson or Thorough were placed into the same situation, they would exhibit the same traits, however that is simply speculation. The only place where this explanation does not hold true is how it is apparent that he really does find god through nature instead of organized religion. This is an extremely transcendentalist idea, however on the whole he is less of a transcendentalist, a hybrid of the transcendentalist movement and twenty-first century commercialization.