The Narrator's Mending Wall

In the poem Mending Wall the speaker doesn't show empathy for his neighbor. The speaker continues to carry on the topic with the neighbor about his reasons on keeping up the wall. The narrator talks about how fences or walls are for keeping animals in or out. He compares their yards consisting apple trees and pine trees. He states that if there were no Wall it's not like his apples would go and eat his pine cones.

The narrator complains of how his apple trees will never get across and eat his pine cones, meaning that he doesn't really see a need for this wall. The neighbor says “Good fences make good neighbors.” the narrator questions him “why?” without any empathy for the neighbors feelings. The speaker noticed that the neighbor