When Maggie finally finds herself unable to juggle all her responsibilities while also helping Victoria, she enacts a plan to house Victoria with two elderly brothers who live outside of town.īrothers Raymond and Harold McPheron live on a ranch outside of town, about 17 miles from civilization. Maggie wonders if he may be available, but does not know if she is ready to introduce another possible complication into her life. She is attracted to Guthrie, despite his own set of problems. Maggie is unmarried, does not have any children, and is the caregiver of her senile father. With no one to lean on and nowhere to go, Victoria seeks help from Maggie. When her mother finds out about the pregnancy, she locks Victoria out of her own house, thus casting Victoria further into loneliness and isolation. Victoria’s first and only boyfriend-and father of her child-disappeared a few weeks prior.
In the same town, Victoria Roubideaux, a 17-year-old pregnant girl, lives a lonely life with her verbally abusive mother. Guthrie attempts to soothe his own loneliness with physical comforts, until he discovers a genuine, emotional connection with fellow teacher, Maggie Jones. Ike and Bobby are forced to grow up fast as they navigate their way through life without a mother figure to ease their isolation and confusion. As Guthrie and his children struggle to comprehend Ella’s deteriorating condition, their homelife disintegrates, and Ella moves to Denver. Ella is suffering from depression and confines herself to a dark bedroom, spending most of her time there away from her children and Guthrie. This familiarity with loneliness does not lessen.In Holt, Colorado, Tom Guthrie readies his young children, Ike and Bobby, for school and checks in on his sleeping wife, Ella, before leaving for work. When they were teenagers they lost both parents in an automobile accident. The McPheron brothers are familiar with feelings of loneliness. They become fond of Victoria Roubideaux, and then she departs for a time. Other characters, such as the McPheron brothers, encounter loneliness as the novel progresses. Her depression has left her in a state where she feels foreign to everyone including herself. His wife, Ella, is also suffering from feelings of isolation.
It is not a loss through death or initially physical distance, but it is a loss nonetheless. The first character encountered, Tom Guthrie, is facing the loss of his wife. Some characters experience it from the opening of the novel, and other characters encounter it as the novel progresses. Each of the main characters experiences this emotion. The novel's most apparent and predominant theme is loneliness.
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