This physical setting gives the reader a good understanding of how and where the story will follow, in what kind of surroundings. As Ann’s husband leaves to meet his father in this brutal weather, she can’t help but wonder how the day will pass in such lonely atmosphere and complete isolation, while praying and hoping her husband will return soon, “eager and hopeful first; then clenched, rebellious, lonely”. The entire story is based on the consequences of the combination of this kind of setting: extreme fierce weather, lonesome wife, husband away, and the ‘third’ person. Therefore, without this setting the purpose of the story wouldn’t have existed. In “The Painted Door” this feeling is excessively repeated from the beginning to the end, stressing vividly on the frosty weather and complete seclusion, “for so fierce now, so insane and dominant did the blizzard seem”.
Just like the barking dogs, it is hard not to shout for joy when you accomplish something great. After careful observation of nature, I realized the striking similarities between what I had seen and what I had felt. Nature it seems mimics life’s emotions. For example, the blanket of snow on a winter day chilled my heart and soul and reminded me of times when I felt lost and alone. However, time marches on and so too do the emotions of my life.
“Leaving alien miles unleashed and unrestrained. Watching the hurricane of writhing snow rage past the little house” (234). She was overpowered by the storm which left her planted in the freezing drifts in which Steven arrived. Now Ann can relax as there is someone to do the chores and keep her company, but in a short amount of time this changes. Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236).
In both works, Quoyle and the narrator are characters that experience loneliness from the result of remaining distant from society. Annie Proulx mentions, “[Quoyle] cherished the idea that he had been given to the wrong family […] At the university he took courses he couldn’t understand, humped back and forth without speaking to anyone […] dropped out of school and looked for a job” (Proulx 2-3). Quoyle’s denial of his true family and minimal effort in socializing shows a weak sense of motive in his life. Through this lifestyle, a strong display of neglecting society, including family and friends, is evident in Quoyle’s way of living. This is significant because maintaining such a detachment from society initiates the feeling of isolation as one increasingly grows away from society, which includes everyday communication and general interactions with human civilization.
Unknown to the reader until Part 6 Chapter 7, embedded in the snowball was a small pink granite stone, which is what then causes Mary to go into premature labor and there after be referred to as “simple”. This single event stays with Dunstan for the remainder of his life. From then on he lives with a perpetual cloud of guilt hanging over him and “make[s] [him]self responsible for other people’s troubles. It is [his] hobby”. On the other hand, there is Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, which begins with secondary narrator Mr. Lockwood’s arrival at his temporary home where he meets his “solitary neighbor that [he] shall be troubled with”, Heathcliff in “a perfect misanthropists heaven”.
He experiences loneliness in a society where people are constantly entertained without time given to reflection and personal development, activities often associated with the reading process. The more complicated fine distinctions of the world of books are available to him only when he leaves his reductionist society. Bradbury does not realize just how unhappy he is with his life and the world he lives in until Clarisse talks about her "strange" family, the one that actually converses with each other and enjoys nature. Bradbury show just how much Clarisse’s way of life is unaccepted in Montag’s world with the quote spoken by Clarisse, “White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
He became a captain to a ship set course to the Arctic. The arctic being a dead wasteland with nearly no life or vegetation due to a freezing climate. As Walton and his crew partake on this trip, he has trouble relating with the men onboard with him. Walton is lonely, he "desires the company of a man who could sympathize with [him]” and “whose eyes would reply to [his]” (Shelley 7). Emotionally, Walton felt distant and alone.
The initial incident (within the novel’s timeline) occurs as Ethan walks Mattie home from church and struggles with his feelings, trying to decided whether or not to show them, eventually he does, as he hugs Mattie in the darkness. The rising action can be seen once Zenobia (Zeena), Ethan’s wife, goes to another town for a few days, leaving Mattie and Ethan alone, much to their not so hidden pleasure. Of course, they feel awkward each attempting to reveal their true feelings, their night together ends gracelessly. Zeena returns from he
Dimmesdale begins to wake up during the night and walks to the scaffold and almost pretends to confess, but all is in vain as no one is there to gaze upon him and see his sin. People are not gathered around judging Dimmesdale on his sin or critiquing his character as there was at Hester’s scaffold. He stands there at night and screams, but no one hears him; it’s the only thing that he can do to in some way ease his ongoing pain and suffering(Novels for Students, Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale).
Scout says of the finished snowman, “It’s lovely, Jem, it looks almost like he’d talk to you.” (89) Earlier, Jem who called the snowman a Negro snowman is now calling it beautiful when it is covered with the white outside, the snow. Later, Atticus “squinted at the snowman a while. He grinned then laughed.” (90) Atticus, appreciated Jem and Scout’s work on the snowman, he didn’t care whether it was black or white because he wasn’t racist. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the snowman is an important symbol discussed. First while constructing the snowman Jem and Scout put dirt in the middle to make up for the lack of snow.