Louisa, a spinster in the short story, decided that she wanted to live her life alone. Because she was set in her way of doing things, she did not want to change her lifestyle for someone else. Just because Louisa lived alone, does not make her a lonely person.

"She had lived so long in one way that she shrank from making a change (page 7

1).aE? Louisa may have been alone, without a companion, but she had a dog and a canary for company, and she liked to sew, polish her china to perfection and look out her window. She had hobbies, and did not feel as if she were lonely.

Mrs. Wright was so lonely, that she must have become crazy. Without having anybody to talk to or confide in, she must have become quite fanatical about this great deal of silence. Another character, Mrs. Hale, spoke of Mrs. Wright and the situation of loneliness that Mrs. Wright was in. She said that, "If there had been years and years of-nothing, then a bird to sing to you, it would be awful-still-after the bird was still (page 170).aE? Stillness can cause extreme mental depression and loneliness. "She had let he

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