Isolation_As_A_Theme_In_Short_Stories

Isolation As A Theme In Short Stories Isolation as a Theme in Short Stories All short storied have an underlying theme that is evident throughout the story. Many of these stories have the theme of isolation. Isolation, as defined in Webster's dictionary, is "to separate apart from others; place". Emotional and physical isolation are similar in definition, emotional isolation is the separation of ones personal feelings from another. Physical isolation is the bodily separation from another person, place or an event. The theme of isolation is evident in “Once Upon a Time” by Nadine Gordimer, “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, and “Chrysanthemums” by John Steinbeck. In “Once Upon a Time” isolation is evident in the physical and the emotional realm of the characters. The family is physically isolated because they have created a prison wall between them and the rest of the world. "The sunlight flashed and slashed, off the serrations, the cornice of razor thorns encircled the home, shining." The parents and the little boy are emotionally isolated from each other. When the boy becomes tangled in the barbed wire they are not the ones described as hysterical, "...the man, the wife, the hysterical trusted housemaid and the weeping gardener...". The rest of the world is isolated isolated, isolation, world, husband, theme, emotionally, valley, story, storm, short, rest, physically, physical, home, evident, emotional, elise, because, upon, town, time, stories, shows, place, outside, once, off, family, chrysanthemums, calixta, tinker, steinbeck, separation, over, ones