His sentences are always blunt and factual, there are never long describing words as Christopher thinks that it is far more logical to just say what you want to say without putting fancy adjectives in there. He also does not understand lies, and he does not like jokes because he thinks they are lies and lies aren’t the truth so they confuse him. Christopher changes in a slow way that a reader would only notice if they compared the Christopher at the start to the Christopher at the end of the novel. The development flows and does not suddenly happen; it progresses over the book. Christopher does not change an awful lot, but it is noticeable that his attitude has become slightly more lenient towards things he did not previously accept at the beginning of the novel.
At his family home, we realise that his only friends were characters in books, showing he had a very lonely upbringing. This makes the reader feel sympathy as he regains his imagination and ability to feel emotion. However, when we meet his fiancé, we lose our sympathy as he had a chance to be happy, and missed it due to his obsession with wealth and possessions. Although, by the end of the Stave, we again feel sympathy as he begs to go home as he cannot handle the
I believe John had a genuine concern and love toward his wife but not wise in his treatments of her mental health. He missed the mark in his Isolation treatments toward his wife mental condition. As the Author cites “John does not know how much I really suffer, he knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him”. Moreover, John tried very hard to make his wife comfortable at the house even having his sister help, although she didn’t like it. “There comes John's sister.
He thinks of her as “part of the great loneliness being carried up the driving current” (366), meaning that she has always been a solitary individual one with wild. Despite the fact that Lipsha hardly knew her and only recently found out he was her son, he still sees her as part of nature. He even remarks about how he is glad June had given him up, as her other son “suffered more than Lipsha Morrissey did” (367), signifying her substandard
Charlie has many regrets towards his past actions and behavior, especially those regarding his deceased wife, Helen. The events that occurred during his visit to Paris, however, were detrimental to his intentions. Charlie revisits Paris to try to regain custody of his daughter, Hanoria, from his sister-in-law, Marion. Marion dislikes Charlie and is hesitant to give back his daughter because she thinks he caused her sister's death. He comes back and Paris was quiet and still.
Set apart from others, Miss Emily and Norman are able to exist the only way they know how, isolated and alone. Due to the unusual upbringings by their parents, the reader can assume both are consequently forced to live this way. Miss Emily’s father did not allow her to go out without him nor to have any company, thus allowing him to be the only person with whom she has a close relationship. Because of her overbearing father, even after his death, she is rarely seen by the townspeople. To the townspeople and the reader it makes perfect sense that somehow from the grave her father still has control over her, “as if that quality of her father had thwarted her woman’s life so many times had too virulent and too furious to die”(532).
Stephen Khumalo, being a simple man from the hills of Ndotsheni, is shocked and hurt to find his family's immoral condition in Johannesburg. Seeing as he is a priest from a rural town, he is rarely faced with the bittersweet temptation of sin. Therefore, he cannot understand why his close relatives have succumbed to things such as murder, prostitution, and deceit. His honesty and faith in God till the very end of the book bears witness to the kind of upbringing and lifestyle he has had. “The humble man reached into his pocket for his sacred book, and began to read.
Human life is the greatest masterpiece gifted by the Lord, yet White indicated that life is the greatest godsend only when they are not compared with the nature. From their personal essay, we can see things that are used to be neglected but ought not to be missed. “On going home” is all about a personal experience relating to a visit to the writer’s childhood family, revealing the fragmentation of once close-knit family, by telling the communication gap between her husband and her brother, as if her new family (with husband) as well as the childhood family (with her parents and relatives). The gap is especially apparent when Didion states that “my brother does not understand my husband’s inability to perceive the advantages in the rather common real-estate transaction known as ’sale-leaseback’”(1), neither her husband can understand ”why so many of the people he hears about in my father’s house have recently be committed to mental hospital” (1)as well. Her brother even used “Joan’s husband” as a character emotionally separated from her family to describe her husband, reinforcing the cleft between two families.
“This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead. Being alone in a household after someone has died makes you lonely. Even though the speaker doesn’t say this the reader can tell this is what he is feeling because of the fact that he is now looking for a new wife to give him company. We can see this by the quote: “Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed”. When lonely you look for company; searching for a new wife/partner is the same as searching for company to fill in the loneliness.
Seymour is in a loveless marriage to his wife Muriel. He cannot connect with her, due to the fact that she is more interested in herself, than her own husband while on their vacation. Muriel’s family is concerned with Seymour’s behavior, and fears for their daughter’s safety. Seymour is so detached from the world he lives in, that he takes the ultimate escape, suicide. The fact that Muriel has no concern for her husband’s mental health, and continues her disconnected communication with him, further explains the idea that isolation is destructive in society, and causes and individual to an unthinkable escape.