In El Dorado, we see the “good life” as the possibility of living freely without any worries. Both are illustrated when the retired old man talks about his "very simple house" (Voltaire 72), and readers feel a sense of contentment, because he does not need an extravagant house to be happy. The passage later goes on to talk about all the gold and silver items in his house, but he was more worried about what he had achieved or acquired in his life. This shows readers that even when you have all the wealth, there is no need to be greedy, but you can live humbly while still living a simple life. At the end of the novel, the last sentence is: “but let us cultivate our garden”. (Voltaire?). What the author means by this is that everyone can live their life and put everything they have into it and harvest, sow and cultivate whatever seeds are given to you or in other words make the best of it part of the life that was given to you. It is the symbol of our lives, because no one's life is perfect and we all have trials and tribulations representing the many different plants in the garden, but as we learn from them, we grow as a person . This brings us back to the old man because, like him, you can have all the riches in the world, but if it doesn't help you as a person to learn or gain something from it, then its true value is unknown. The true value of life is to live simply