The author of passage 2 does not really say anything extremely harsh about Thoreau—for example, that he is avaricious (greedy), immoral, or unscrupulous (immoral again). He might strike us as immature with passage 2’s depiction, but he is not a youth, and his knowledge of the world in general is not really discussed. He is, according to the passage, unreliable, and his knowledge lacks specifically in the area of social realities (A).