Paul's Miscommunication In The Lamp At Noon By Sinclair Ross

Register to read the introduction… After finally understanding Ellen’s position, he decides she is right but as he is about to confront her he realizes: “She was gone… The door was open, the lamp blown out, the crib empty” (pg. 71). This is the start of a catastrophic tragedy. As Paul proceeds to look for his running spouse with the baby, he finally finds them “crouched down against a drift of sand as if for shelter.” Regretting his decisions, he realizes the worst has come: “The child was quite cold. It had been her arms, perhaps, too frantic to protect him, or the mother of dust upon his throat and lungs” (pg. 72). The death of the baby was purely the fault of Paul and Ellen’s miscommunication. Therefore, Paul and Ellen’s miscommunication lead to Ellen running away resulting in the death of the baby.

In conclusion, Its hard to adapt to a different lifestyle after growing up in a different setting: this can lead to different understandings and result in a blow. In the short story The Lamp at Noon by Sinclair Ross, Paul and Ellen come from two different backgrounds which provides them with two different ideas that lead them to disagree and results in the death of the baby. rebellion resulting in the cult falling apart. In life, people need to live off of faith, and when the trust is broken, there's no telling if the leader will ever earn it