Throughout the novel Plainsong by Kent Haruf, the novel's most theme is loneliness. All of the characters depicts this emotion. Some characters experience it from the beginning of the novel, and other characters experience it as the novel continue. The Guirthe brothers have lost their mother and wife to depression. Moreover, the Guthrie brothers have lost their innocence. For example, when they are on their paper route and see a woman dead in her apartment. Most children don't see these things at a young age and both Ike and Bobby have lost the innocence of death. Furthermore, they've seen the ugliness of death and can never go back to what they had once saw before. Victoria Roubideaux also has lost many things throughout the course of the
