Choosing Connection Over Isolation
Christmas Past shows the boy left when the others go home, then Belle releasing a man who has already chosen the counting-house over her. Isolation did not begin as a principle. It began as a child alone, then as a young man who would not be left again, except on his own terms.
Key Insight
Calling other people foolish is often the adult version of a room you were once left in.
“Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I release you.”Full analysis
