Asef Rahman English 10H 10/15/2012 Ethan Frome: a lonely man indeed The novel, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, is a story about Ethan, a man torn between the moral obligations to his wife, Zeena, and his need for a person to love. The author’s use of foreshadowing, metaphors, imagery and motifs vividly convey the overall message that man cannot simply live alone and needs somebody in his life. He has Zeena but he does not converse with her at all. The fact that Starkfield was a depressing place to live did not help his life either. Although Ethan’s overall nature was damaged by the smash up, his time spent in Starkfield had caused his overall melancholy demeanor and left him feeling isolated.
Loneliness for some is a dull beginning of a bright future, and for others, it is unfortunate and eternal. In The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, Quoyle is a character who suffers through a boundless amount of loneliness that exists in many forms. He becomes lonely as he is involved in a one-way relationship and also exhibits the feeling of isolation when he is singled out by society. Similarly, the life experiences of a narrator in an anonymous writer’s poem, Bow Down Your Head and Cry, closely resemble the isolation and hardships that Quoyle is forced to suffer through. The narrator experiences loneliness and great difficulties coping with the separation of his loved one and additionally felt isolated as he was alienated from society.
this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray. How is anyone to feel connected when they much live with a foul personality? “He was a hard man” (Glaspell 181); “Like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (Glaspell 181). He gave his wife a dispirited sense of being. She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone.
Also, he is ashamed of allowing his family to see him the way he is. Besides the couple of nurses that take care of him, he has no one and nothing to live for. Joe Bunham, now injured with no limbs, suffered through the pain that no 20 year old should be going through. The war altered his life to a point where one questions the point of living. What happened to him during the war mentally changed his view on what his future should really be.
Ruth realized that as much as she loved cooking that it made her under appreciate her father and not take time to learn about him or his interest because cooking was the big thing to her and her mother in their family. Doug learned that he didn’t have the family structure as Ruth did and he always yearned for family would listen and talk to him about his accomplishes and things he enjoyed. Ruth’s whole outlook on this chapter is to inform us about a part in her life as she does in every other chapter. It’s very hard to relate with Ruth’s made point in this chapter because I have never experienced a feeling like Ruth has. So I cannot really relate to how she feels.
I believe this because in the poem it is written "With no Rest, neither night nor day" and "Who endures as much as misery as us". From these 2 lines I inferred that the people live in harsh conditions as they aren't really able to take a break and they have to deal with many things even though they do not have the energy to. "Always worrying about the coming winter", is a line from which I inferred that the people are scared due to the fact that they now have to deal with bad weather in which they still have to work. "Never again will I come to this damned Country", from this line I was able to interpret that the people are finally leaving the country and are hoping that they never ever
Many years he wears the mysterious article, dies and is buried with him, and in all that time they never have a glimpse of his face. Though there is a deal of nonsense in the story, and hocus-pocus instead of a mystery, we must remember that veil as a striking symbol of the loneliness of life, of the gulf that separates a human soul from every other. A clue to understanding this story may lie in an incident from Hawthorne’s own life. After the death of his Hawthorne’s father,
He is the only one that resisted the temptation and has no forgiveness for others. There “they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom”
Sixty-six hungry environmentalists. I pointed to a stack of menus remembering my personal Waitress Rule Number One: Never let a customer see that you’re out of control.’ (Anthology page 215) She was overwhelmed until her ex-boyfriend and his mom came to help. She then realizes that it is necessary to ask for help. On the other hand, Madame Loisel knows that she needs help at the beginning of her situation. She loses Madame Forestier’s necklace, and asks her husband to help return the necklace without Madame Forestier knowing.
At one point, Andy looked into his eyes and became overwhelmed with his feelings of isolation. "The loneliness-the desolate cold aloneness of the landscape made Andy whimper because there wasn't anybody at all in the world and he was left." From this glimpse into the Chinaman's world a person realizes how alone the old man is actually. The old Chinaman is known around the town as “Death,” because his eyes are one colored and abnormal. Although, if one were to truly gaze into his eyes, he/she would not find death but longing for a friend.