There is another disease reeking havoc on men and women all across the globe, and there's no vaccination and no cure to prevent it or completely eradicate it. This disease is called loneliness. Loneliness is the state of being unaccompanied or without friends. So what can we do to diminish the feelings of loneliness, and what are the consequences it can have on a person's life? The answer to the deterrence of loneliness and the consequences it results in is revealed in the final actions of the characters in Carson McCuller's, "The Haunted Boy," Sara Teasdale's "The Solitary," and Robert Frost's, "Death of the Hired Man." In the story "The Haunted Boy," by Carson McCullers, a boy's yearning for his mother causes him to be lonely and emotionally disturbed. Hugh's mother attempted suicide, and he was so upset that he secluded himself from fall of his close friends. He allows no one to get close to him. A few months after the attempted suicide Hugh, "somehow cut myself off from people." (McCullers 622). Hugh was so scared to get close to anyone because of fear that something like this would happen again, that it caused him to not have many friends, if in fact he did have any. Also, his friend John tries to leave his house one afternoon and John desperately tries to keep him there by offering John another piece of pie. Finally John tells Hugh that he, "was obligated to sell those tickets." (McCullers 622). Hugh is abandoned inside the house by himself terrified to look for his mother because he may find her dead again. So he watches as John, "closed the front door behind him, and he was alone." (McCullers 622). Hugh is unoccupied because John has left and Hugh has nothing to do but search for his mother. He sees a vision of that terrible afternoon where he finds his mother lying on the bathroom floor with her wrists cut and runs in his room. In Hugh's case the "consequences of a broken trust may be violent enough to change th...
