When she finally reconnects with her dad, she discovers that he ended up in the same emotional trials for many of the same reasons.

The loneliness is traumatic, and the human contact is traumatic. Her experience of loneliness has become severe and self-perpetuating, because without experience to go off of, her experience of intimacy is traumatic. She realizes that even when she wants to connect with someone, she simply can't figure out how to be open or vulnerable, having been neglected in those ways by her life of loneliness. Lucy wants love more than anything else, but not just any love will do. The true cost of war is absolute suffering, and war makes a lot of orphans, so the metaphor is apt. As an orphan, she represents the true cost of conflict like the fighting between the IRA and the British army. This makes her into a religious martyr for loneliness, in a way. The truth is that Lucy's experience of loneliness is extreme not because she is particularly evil, but just by fate. They actually believed she was dead, but in any case, it's no one's fault except the IRA driving their family back to Britain (they are British loyalists during the Irish War of Independence). Without any explanation from her parents, she wrongly believes that when they were trying to move, that they left her behind. Poor Lucy Gault feels her whole life like she orphaned herself. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.

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