With which of the following assessments of Walden do you most agree? "It is the work of an arrogant preacher, a pantheistic egoist, an antic stranger opposed to stability and order." Or "it is a literary masterpiece, a great document of social dissent, a

I would probably go with the latter. The truth, however, lies somewhere in-between. Thoreau certainly had a uniquely refreshing take on society but people sometimes forget that Walden was not an autobiography. It was more an ideal rather than how he lived most of his life.