In this chapter Thoreau discusses how he prepares for the upcoming winter and freezing winter. To make his house more comfortable he shifts his ideals by plastering the walls, and learning to admire the convenience of plastering walls. Thoreau prefers the look of his house before he makes it more suitable to winter weather, but he shows he changed ideals when he admits that his house is more livable. The reader learns this when he says, “My house never pleased my eye so much after it was plastered, though I was obliged to confess that it was more comfortable”(Thoreau 120). The plastering of the house also shows a change in ideas because as the reader is aware, Thoreau aims to connect with nature, but by fixing his house he is ruining the natural