“Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson gives perspective on the nature of humans and its non-conformist opinions which epitomizes the narrator’s extremely objective nature. Many of the ideas and beliefs explained are not provable and are as intangible to some as the theory of gravity. The narrator’s intelligence is assumed after the first line of the work and uses this as the furnace of the work’s ideological warmth. Just as any person is, the work is not right all the time and disagreement is alive with not all, but, particular areas of the work. Ralph runs on the idea of self-reliance over and over again. Taking each argument, the narrator paints stories with words, each one seemingly with emotion felt. The negative emotion itself is the only downfall in the work. The narrator states “..imitation is suicide” (Emerson 270). Imitation is not suicide, with relation to the context of the work. Imitation is a cancer, it will slowly kill you. If you imitate someone it is not a death sentence, it is only a choice. Ruling it suicide only gives perspective on the narrator’s state of mind. The narrator is completely spot on in many parts of “Self-Reliance.” Quoted, “There is nothing that can be called gratitude nor properly joy.” (Emerson 278) There are actually many things that can be called joy or also in other forms as joyful feelings. Just because these feelings do not breed immortality does not mean one can make true claims of objections to actuality. Ralph’s thesis is solid, but tainted by his false claims. In an email written by a SLCC faculty member there was a quote by Jack Welch that read, “Before you become a leader success is all about yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Reminded of this quote by reading “Self-Reliance” the following quote corresponded to the opposite feeling felt from its words, “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of ev