Member-only story
Loneliness… Is it real for singles, or is it just created in their minds?
An Article Written by Vivian Ennis 11/16/18
As I sit here thinking of past novels I have read one thought comes to mind. I am reminded of the women in the novels I have read about, who are single and how their story line always seems to go the same way.
She is always a woman who is closed off from romance and has a dream to finish a book she has written, or some other career goal. It is almost like she is not even thinking of a partner or ever having one in the story line. There is no man in her life and she is alone living in some old home, which she has rented in a city not familiar to her. Ironically it always seems winter is the season the novelist chooses.
The caricature in the novel always seems so strong and her identity is intact. She seems independent of the need for relationship in the beginning of the novel. She has a goal and it has no room for a relationship of any special kind getting in her way. But something is always lurking in the distant background of her mind. It is some past pain she experienced in an old relationship. Her past seems to enter in her thoughts and she quickly dismisses it as if she is in denial of her needs as a human for contact with others.