Some People are Meant to Live Alone

The short story of Some People are Meant to be Alone is about a man called Uncle Arthur. Uncle Arther lives up on the hill in his old run-down house. "No, it was the fact that he lived all alone; alone in the old, dilapidated house on the hill, a house we could see when the canes were cut, a house that loomed gaunt and cockeyed against the brooding background of the two countable isolation" (Frank Collymore, Some People are Meant to Live Alone). The main character Bill decided to go up to Uncle Arthurs's house to find out why his mother use to say he was so horrible to be with. That is why nobody ever wants to be around him and why he lives alone. Bill knocked on the door and Arthur invited him upstairs to talk. Arther told Bill a story about a man that he once knew by the name of Jones. Jones was once married for a few years and hated every second of it. "Jones, when the story begins, had been married four or five years and he was desperately unhappy. His wife was one of the nagging sort" (Frank Collymore, Some People are Meant to Live Alone). Uncle Arther preferred to live alone and be with himself. It’s not that he didn’t like other people but he enjoyed the company of just himself. At the end of the story, it says that Bill, later on, got married and that Uncle Arther had passed away. Not soon after Bill left his wife because she too was nagging. Uncle Arther left Bill his house and his sole heir. Bill thought to himself that Some People are Meant to be Alone.

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  1. Ian MillerSeptember 9, 2020 at 12:47 PM

    I find it interesting that Collymore has Uncle Arthur tell a story about "Jones", when it is actually about himself. This is so common in comedies and in movies where the character is being taught a lesson. Instead of calling themself out on their personal experience, they make up a different person to take the brunt of their experience. Usually this is used when teaching a small child a lesson, so this works well in connection to the story.

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