Under Pressure

Eustace is pressured, from all around to set up and run Turtle Island. He has lots of pressure from himself because he makes a dream and goal to buy the farmer's land. If he doesn't get the land, and it's developed, than he will quit cold turkey and will move somewhere else. He puts a lot of pressure on himself. He also is pressured because he has to act a certain way while being a businessman. It is very tiresome to act this way, his perfect side, and it breaks him down. He is sick of acting the same way for the same people over and over again. He worked very hard, and made people think that he was a kind, friendly, rugged pioneer man. Sure he was kind, friendly, and rugged, but he was not always these things, and it was hard for him to always portray this image to people.
He also put pressure on himself by getting money from his dad, whom he hadn't talked to in a while. He worked very hard to pay back his dad just to show that he was able to work, and was independent, and was intelligent enough to succeed on his own. He was also working very hard, quite opposite of the life that he preached, and quite opposite of the life that he wanted. He was working hard for a life where he wouldn't have to work hard, and he didn't really see the light at the end of the tunnel.