Enoch returns to his hometown of Winesburg after living in New York City for fifteen years and confides in George Willard about his life. He senses a “youthful sadness” in George to which he can relate. Enoch’s childlike, selfish, egocentric nature makes it extremely difficult for him to get along with people and function normally. As a result, he creates imaginary friends whom he can fully control. After going to art school, he got married and had a family but was incapable of fulfilling his role as a husband and father. He met another woman who he scares away, and his imaginary friends disappear along with her. Back in Winesburg, he is distraught that he is all alone after losing everyone in his life.
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18. Loneliness
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His room began to be inhabited by the spirits of men and women among whom he went, in turn saying words. It was as though everyone Enoch Robinson had ever seen had left with him some essence of himself, something he could mould and change to suit his own fancy, something that understood all about such things as the wounded woman behind the elders in the pictures.
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18. Loneliness
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His room began to be inhabited by the spirits of men and women among whom he went, in turn saying words. It was as though everyone Enoch Robinson had ever seen had left with him some essence of himself, something he could mould and change to suit his own fancy, something that understood all about such things as the wounded woman behind the elders in the pictures.
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