Loneliness is a part of every person’s life. Everybody is lonely sometimes. Some people choose to be lonely and are happy to live in solitude while others are lonely just because that is how their lives went on and they are not able to do anything to change their situation.
Loneliness plays a significant role in Sherwood Anderson’s book Winesburg, Ohio. Majority of characters appearing in the short stories are lonely for numerous reasons. They have problems and cannot communicate with people successfully what makes them lonely and unhappy. The first person touched by loneliness is Elizabeth Willard. She is the mother of the main protagonist George Willard. She is in her middle forties but illness made her look much older. She and her …show more content…
She dreamt of working in a theater, traveling around the world and meeting new people. But whenever she tried to talk to somebody from theatrical companies she did not succeed, they discouraged her. Then she started meeting Tom Willard. They got married and she thought she found happiness in life but their love did not last long. It soon appeared that Tom is a bully who prefers to spend time outside the hotel to be as far from Elizabeth as possible and talk about politics with other men from Winesburg. Elizabeth wants her son to become someone important, she does not want him to repeat her fate and become a meaningless creature just like her. She prays for him “If I am dead and see him becoming a meaningless drab figure like myself, I will come back (…) I will take any blow that may befall if but this my boy be allowed to express something for us both.”1 She does not want him to be nobody, but will not let him to be successful ether. She cannot communicate with
George, she does not know how to talk to him. Instead of talking to him she kneels by the door to his room and eavesdrops on him to know more about him. He sometimes comes to her room and they sit and look outside the window in an awkward silence. Even though they …show more content…
She married him only because he was a clerk in her father’s hotel so he was near and she was very determined to get married at that time. She saw her friends getting married, walking with their husbands, being happy, she also wanted it.
She also was scared because her father was very ill and she did not want to stay alone when he dies. Now she regrets that she did not listen to her father when he told her not to get married. She tells Reefy about the history of her marriage and about the fact that one day when she was driving a buggy, she wanted to run away out of the town, leave Tom and become somebody else. But she did not have the courage to do it. Doctor Reefy kisses her.
The sound of someone's footsteps interrupted them. She went to the hotel. She spends the last months of life waiting for death, she imagines death as a young, handsome man who will come and take her to a better place. For a week she lay in her bed, she cannot move or speak.
She wants to talk to George about his future and the hidden money that she got from her
Father but she is unable to speak. She dies without telling anybody about the
Loneliness plays a significant role in Sherwood Anderson’s book Winesburg, Ohio. Majority of characters appearing in the short stories are lonely for numerous reasons. They have problems and cannot communicate with people successfully what makes them lonely and unhappy. The first person touched by loneliness is Elizabeth Willard. She is the mother of the main protagonist George Willard. She is in her middle forties but illness made her look much older. She and her …show more content…
She dreamt of working in a theater, traveling around the world and meeting new people. But whenever she tried to talk to somebody from theatrical companies she did not succeed, they discouraged her. Then she started meeting Tom Willard. They got married and she thought she found happiness in life but their love did not last long. It soon appeared that Tom is a bully who prefers to spend time outside the hotel to be as far from Elizabeth as possible and talk about politics with other men from Winesburg. Elizabeth wants her son to become someone important, she does not want him to repeat her fate and become a meaningless creature just like her. She prays for him “If I am dead and see him becoming a meaningless drab figure like myself, I will come back (…) I will take any blow that may befall if but this my boy be allowed to express something for us both.”1 She does not want him to be nobody, but will not let him to be successful ether. She cannot communicate with
George, she does not know how to talk to him. Instead of talking to him she kneels by the door to his room and eavesdrops on him to know more about him. He sometimes comes to her room and they sit and look outside the window in an awkward silence. Even though they …show more content…
She married him only because he was a clerk in her father’s hotel so he was near and she was very determined to get married at that time. She saw her friends getting married, walking with their husbands, being happy, she also wanted it.
She also was scared because her father was very ill and she did not want to stay alone when he dies. Now she regrets that she did not listen to her father when he told her not to get married. She tells Reefy about the history of her marriage and about the fact that one day when she was driving a buggy, she wanted to run away out of the town, leave Tom and become somebody else. But she did not have the courage to do it. Doctor Reefy kisses her.
The sound of someone's footsteps interrupted them. She went to the hotel. She spends the last months of life waiting for death, she imagines death as a young, handsome man who will come and take her to a better place. For a week she lay in her bed, she cannot move or speak.
She wants to talk to George about his future and the hidden money that she got from her
Father but she is unable to speak. She dies without telling anybody about the