The fist example is shown through his fear of commitment with Jane Gallagher. Although he was once good close friends with her, when he first finds out that she is on campus and going on a date with Stradlater he asks about her but not once goes and talks to her. He does this because he is afraid of rejection and falling in love then losing what he loved. Which is what happened with Allie. He loved Allie then he died so now Holden subconsciously relates love with death, disappointment, and despair.
Unexpectedly, Quoyle was informed that “[Petal] took the kids and went off with that guy in the red Geo” (Proulx 22). Quoyle’s loneliness caused by his lost relationship takes a toll on his self-esteem, which is evident when his daughter Bunny says “‘Petal said Dad is dumb’ […] ‘Everyone is dumb about some things,’ said Quoyle” (Proulx 39). It is clear that the love Quoyle maintains for Petal after her deceiving departure is so great that it is enough to surpass the importance of his own self-esteem. To have reached such a point, it shows the amount of loneliness Quoyle endures and its impact on his self-opinion. Additionally, Quoyle’s unattractive chin, the part of his body that he was conscious and afraid of showing, is a symbol of self-respect.
Emily Dickinson explores the concept of not belonging due to a lack of connection experienced with her place in society. Dickinson’s poetry then contrasts this, by exploring her sense of belonging to her poetry and to Nature. In the poem I had been hungry all the years, the persona in the poem initially seeks a belonging with society, however she immediately rejects this belonging due to her sense of discomfort and lack of connection intuited. In the poem I died for beauty but was scarce, Dickinson explores the perception of making the deliberate decision to belong to her art and indirectly to nature. The film Pan’s labyrinth explores the sense of belonging the character Ofelia feels to a fantasy world that she has created, as a consequence of not feeling a connection to the real world.
This is the first time we begin to see what her character is really like as she opens up to the men. “Think I don’t like to talk to somebody ever’ once in a while?” is a definite example of the true desperation and anger she is feeling about her loneliness. Although she never admits to be lonely until the end, she still makes clear indications like these to demonstrate her somewhat obvious isolation she feels. In Crooks’ room she says, “talking to a bunch of bindle stiffs an’ likin’ it…ain’t nobody else” which shows almost what can be described as a defeat of her attempts to hide her loneliness. This is shown, firstly, by talking to “bindle stiffs”, she really has no one else to go to and so resulted to what comes across to be the lowest people on the ranch.
By Curley’s wife talking to a mentally unstable person Lennie she seemed to take advantage of him by flirting a little bit with him. Lennie seems a little questionable by all that she was doing but he was going along with it until she says, “ I get lonely, you can talk to people but I can’t talk to nobody but curly” (Steinbeck, 87). This quote shows loneliness because even Lennie is having a hard time to communicate with Curley’s wife because she doesn’t seem confortable with him. As they keep talking Curley’s wife lets out all that she had hurting her inside to Lennie, she tells him everything because her husband never wanted to listen to her which made her loos her companionship. As Lennie keeps talking to her in his mind he feels that she is very confused into her self by this entire happening she gets herself into trouble.
He is left to deal with hateful and abusive nuns all by himself. Just when Jennings thinks he finds the companionship of a friend or loved one, he or she seems to be stripped away from him time after time. His friends Mark and Stacy, his mother, his brothers, his kitten Midnight, and other people he loves are taken away from him one way or another. Some of them return to Jennings, but unfortunately some do not. The orphanages are not the only places Jennings experiences alienation and isolation.
Doing this gives the reader a better description of the situation. ‘Romeo & Juliet relates to both the poems as it has a theme of death and the depression caused by it. Romeo and Juliet’s families despised each other therefore the two were forced to stay apart, but they met and fell in love, but had to face death soon after. Their families then reconciled soon after. This just tells me that Romeo and Juliet’s weren’t necessarily needed but unfortunately they gave their life for each other.
This continues after multiple attempts to tell her husband that she is uncomfortable with the yellow wallpaper. Until her mental break comes her husband is not able to see the extent of the damage he has done by leaving her without emotional and mental stimulation (Gilman 588-600). While this case is different than the other story it is still about missed managed emotions. As a result of being locked away in a room she lost what makes people feel good about themselves their emotional connections with others. Having no one to connect with she is force to focus on her self to the point where she is unknowingly projecting herself as the women be hide the wallpaper as a metaphor for her being trapped by the walls of the summer house and her own
I get awful lonely.” (86). She is trying to guilt Lennie into talking to her by telling him about how lonely she is. She is so lonely that she is taking advantage of Lennie’s mental disability and tricking him into talking to her. She is desperate to talk to anyone she can, even if it is Lennie, who has no idea what she is talking about. Curley’s Wife is a very isolated
At one point at the at the end of the story, the narrator himself refers to how she is controlled by her husband and has no freedom to do what she wants." Additionally, her fathers love for literature influenced her, and years later he contacted her with a list of books he felt would be worthwhile for her to read".Clearly Gilman had a difficult life to deal with due to her father abandoning his family, and the lack of affection from her mother, which is the same feeling most women at that time felt but with their husbands. Since loneliness was a concept being drastically affected by her past at the time The Yellow Wallpaper was written, it is fair to say that it definitely had an impact on Gilman as she was writing her story.Another social influence affecting Gilman at this time was depression sine during that period lives of women was very upsetting since having no control over their lives and decisions usually would put a person under depression.Therefore, because of social factors such as loneliness and depression for the lives of women in the 1800's heavenly influenced during her writing of The Yellow Wallpaper to adopt the universal truth that a women should not be controlled by anyone, she should be able to have a freedom of