Question

analyze Crevecoeur’s seemingly ambivalent attitude toward European qualities and civilization. Cite examples in the text to show how he both dislikes and admires European qualities.

Answer 1

While Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur does not think America is perfect, in his 1792 Letters from an American Farmer he finds many more praiseworthy things about America than about his native Europe. 

In the third letter, entitled "What is an American?" he imagines what it would be like for an Englishman to come to America for the first time. 

The first comparison he makes is who is allowed to own land. America is comprised of 

fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields, an immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards, meadows, and bridges, where an hundred years ago all was wild, woody and uncultivated.... It is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess every thing and of a herd of people who have nothing.

This is a not-so-veiled condemnation of England which deprives common people of the right to own land.

I hope this helps you.