The way I felt after reading "Original Sin: A Short Story" by Robert Penn Warren was really sympathetic. Reading this story in class set a really dark ambiance, It seems as though it was intentional because of the depressing content. I loved hearing everyone's different perceptions on the story, and some of the stories seemed to intertwine in most parts. The bad childhood was brought up a lot, loneliness was the main idea of this story. A quote that stood out to me was "You thought you had lost it when you left Omaha". That's because this shows that he/she thinks they escaped whatever has been haunting them their whole lives. They seem to find a way to suppress it, but then it comes back unexpectedly, and when it does they start remembering all of the negative things that have occurred in their life. To bring back up the topic of loneliness, I think that isolation is necessary for him/her because it seems that this is the way they seem to deal with this issue. By remembering and reflecting on their past they probably get some kind of closure, and decide to move on for the time being. Until it rears it's head, and comes back to the forefront as alluded to in the story that it just keeps coming back.
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