its his own fault he's the last

The reason Gilbert thinks that Eustace is the last American man is not only because he is the last man to live like those of the frontier, but because of his mindset. Eustace is not the last because no one else can do this. Of course there are other people out in this country who could become entirely self-sufficient. There could be others. The reason that the is the last is because he sets such high standards. There is a difference between just being self sufficient and being self sufficient in Eustace’s mind. Eustace shuts himself off from the rest of the world in his self sufficient-ness. He tries so hard to get people to be like him but there really is no way he can get that to happen because he has closed himself off from the rest of the world. In my opinion Eustace is working his ass off trying to get all this done, but because he is so, well Eustace, he cant see that it is never going to happen for the very reason of him trying to do it.