Yes, it could. Throughout both chapters II and III of The Pioneers, Cooper disputes the intricacy of landscape in the new American frontier. This is carried on within the characters and the surroundings throughout the story. Cooper assesses the landscape as something that will be founded by a society that is not capable of escaping its traits of wastefulness and arrogance. In chapter III, Cooper uses Natty as the character who sees the opposite. Natty’s vision is that people will coexist with the nature. That the nature that has not been discovered by those people adds to the complexity of America. During this, Natty does agree with the gluttony and egocentrism that mankind possesses.
