In The Lovely Bones written by Alice Sebold, we are able to see the isolation of the tragic hero. Throughout the book we see the story of a teenage girl named Susie Salmon, she is a victim of a murder, we see her character watch over her family as she is figuring out her death and how to move forward. Along the plot of the story Susie is stuck in the afterlife feeling frustration, anger, and sadness about her death causing her character to struggle to move forth because she feels as if her childhood was taken from her too soon. Susie is a tragic hero due to her having to face the afterlife alone knowing nothing, her frustrations build the mores she there not understand why it was her and why she must watch her family live through her tragic death. …show more content…
A similarity between the two was that even if they didn't know their fate, they eventually died. The two characters also faced trials that made the the isolation of the tragic hero, Macbeth had to kill the people around him when his masculinity was threatened as well as the crown. This eventually lead Macbeth to become mad, he was the only one seeing Banquo's ghost leaving his face his guilt all alone until it consumed him. However, Susie was left to alone in the afterlife debating to move forward and forgive her murder, each day still holding onto family and childhood as a reason not to