In the excerpt the narrator, Alex struggles separating his obsession of isolation which leads to him losing sense of the real world and eventually losing everything he has. Throughout the story Alex is a loner and becomes alienated which leads him to like being isolated because he enjoys the feeling of being separated from the world and it helps him focus and organize his thought this ends up triggering his obsession. Alex ends up as a psychiatrist specializing in isolation and writes a thesis about the effects of isolation on the human psyche which lands him to fame. Alex is given an opportunity to construct his very own isolation chamber to research the effects isolation has on ordinary people. People who volunteer for this experiment become terrified and often need psychological help. Alex met his future wife, Kathy while she participated in the experiment. …show more content…
It appeared like Alex found, to a degree, light in the darkness by Kathy for a while until they had kids who took the attention and changed Kathy which eventually guides Alex back into the hands of