According to a quote in To The North written by Elizabeth Bowen, communication is necessary to form relationships and yet with communication comes conflict. This connects directly to the character of Laura Willowes, within the book Lolly Willowes by Sylvie Townsend Warner, because of her lack of connections with others, her being at peace when alone and with nature and the understanding Laura and the Devil have in speech and in silence. Although Laura speaks very freely about everything with the Devil, he already knows what she is going to say. This shows a sense of words helping but not always being necessary. In other ways speech is a stressor for Laura. That is the reasoning behind her finding peace alone and not really being able to create
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With communication being an issue between the Willowes, her bringing up her request brought on quarrels and misunderstandings. All she wanted was to be alone in the country but her family took it another way, be it either that she was just sharing a far off dream that would never happen or that she hated her family and wanted to get out. When first brought up, no one took it seriously, except for Titus. In reality he didn’t take it seriously, but acted as if Laura was a child, playing make believe. People truly began to believe that her intent was true when the discussion with Henry takes place. “To talk is always to quarrel a little, or misunderstand” (Bowen). This section of the quote directly connects to section two of the book because she finally tells her family how she truly feels and everyone misunderstands. Then when she was persistent it led to a fight between her and Henry. “But real peace, no points of view could ever disturb” (Bowen). Finally Laura picked up and moved to the small town of Great Mop. She was isolated from her family and everything from her past. This brought on a feeling of Peace for Laura. No one within her family understood her, but she didn’t care anymore. She was alone and happy. That is until Titus makes the decision to join Laura in Great Mop. At the beginning of section three the book
With communication being an issue between the Willowes, her bringing up her request brought on quarrels and misunderstandings. All she wanted was to be alone in the country but her family took it another way, be it either that she was just sharing a far off dream that would never happen or that she hated her family and wanted to get out. When first brought up, no one took it seriously, except for Titus. In reality he didn’t take it seriously, but acted as if Laura was a child, playing make believe. People truly began to believe that her intent was true when the discussion with Henry takes place. “To talk is always to quarrel a little, or misunderstand” (Bowen). This section of the quote directly connects to section two of the book because she finally tells her family how she truly feels and everyone misunderstands. Then when she was persistent it led to a fight between her and Henry. “But real peace, no points of view could ever disturb” (Bowen). Finally Laura picked up and moved to the small town of Great Mop. She was isolated from her family and everything from her past. This brought on a feeling of Peace for Laura. No one within her family understood her, but she didn’t care anymore. She was alone and happy. That is until Titus makes the decision to join Laura in Great Mop. At the beginning of section three the book