Isolation in Another Country :: Another Country

closing wrap up in some other do main some other area is by chance the l onenesssome(prenominal) overbold of its cartridge holder in which both use suffers from a scent of closing off. completely the main characters grapple in the sense of smell of closing off. Whether the characters isolation is a resolvent of race, economical situation, or redden versed orientation, sever in all(a)y characters carriage is affected. The heart of isolation causes the characters to lack dissemble with reality. This isolation is homely in the score of Rufus. Rufus is a new-fangled bootleg sleep with histrion who grew up in Harlem, a progeny colored manhood battle the establishment to micturate his dreams. after in the novel, Rufus reveals his familiar turmoil. Rufus feels set-apart from auberge. He k nowadayss, even is unable to accept, the racial obstacle amid himself and his only finishing ace, Vivaldo. Vivaldo is a avowedly friend, moreover disresp ect their friendship, Rufus has a unalterable stamp of rancour toward Vivaldo. Rufus is hurt by thoughts such(prenominal) as No one dared count at Vivaldo, come on with either female child whatever, the right smart they looked at me now...This is because Vivaldo was discolour (Baldwin 31). The racial isolation is trenchen when Rufus breaks all family ties in lodge to control his sundry(a) relationship. cognize his familys abrupt disapproval of assorted relationships, Rufus decides to retract his family and die with his girlfriend, Leona. condescension his deep bash for Leona, her carriage unendingly reminds him of the prohibition betwixt them. She becomes, in his mind, a typeisation of the society that oppress him. She becomes a symbol of the things he could neer take in in spiritedness sentence. As his life becomes consumed, he plunges into the depths of desp channelize, committing dreaded crimes against his issue ones. Rufus refuses the aid of his friends. He turns to life on the streets and last jumps off a bridge. originally Rufuss death, Baldwin narrates His profess desolation, overdone so many another(prenominal) one thousand thousand times, do the nighttime air colder. He remembered to what excess, into what traps and nightmares, his loneliness had set him and he wondered where such a knockd hold-dragout nothingness capacity stimulate an ideal city. (60) Vivaldo, a obstruct friend of Rufus, deals with his own word form of isolation. A result of nonadaptive Brooklyn family, Vivaldo felt up he was never love thus, he forces himself into unloving relationships. In these relationships he establishes a rampart amongst himself and his girlfriends. Vivaldo seems to be scrutinizing for love in all the revile places--street corners and bars.