Question

Read the excerpt from “How I Live” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have been busy all day, from early breakfast-time till late in the afternoon. It has been a brisk, breezy day, an effervescent atmosphere, and I have enjoyed it in all its freshness,—breathing air which had not been breathed in advance by the hundred thousand pairs of lungs which have common and invisible property in the atmosphere of this great city. My breath had never belonged to anybody but me. It came fresh from the wilderness of ocean. How does Hawthorne most likely feel about city life?

Answer 1

he feels that the city is too crowded

Answer 2

After reading the passage, it my be said that the narrator seems to feel that despite being busy all day, he had the chance to enjoy the place, to breath. maybe it was like an "injection" of energy for him this such fresh air he was able to feel. he is even comparing it to a place with a polluted air which gives him another perspective of the fresh air he was able to find in this place.