The American Scholar

Emerson’s story in the “American Scholar” is about American society is true today.

One reason Emerson’s argument is still true is because jobs are more specialized. My dad is an accountant. He is very smart and very good with numbers. That is what Americans would classify him as, just as an accountant. He can do way more than that though. He can teach me to do things, he can help people with whatever they need help with, he can cook, and he can be a good father. Emerson writes that “Man isn’t a farmer, or professor, or engineer, but he is all.” He is saying that man is not supposed to be classified by what they do, but who they are. Man should be classified as man not by farmer, professor, or engineer.

Another reason is that people are doing their jobs without even thinking. Professional athletes are doing this. They get millions of dollars and try to ask for more to play a game. They know that the way the economy is and they don’t even care. Also, people are so good at their jobs that after a while, they don’t have to think about what they are doing because people know their jobs so well. They know how to do things so well, people classify them for what they are good at.