A Saucer Of Loneliness Essay

In the short story “A Saucer of Loneliness,” a young woman undergoes an experience that alters the future of her life forever. The event that changed her life occurred in Central Park, when she spotted a flying saucer that held her rigid in the air, before it dropped her to the ground (83). At first, bypassers primarily claimed that the woman was knocked down by a man. Once the woman announced that she was hit by a flying saucer, the demeanor of the people around her was altered completely. The authorities reported to the scene, and took the woman into custody, hoping to obtain information on the saucer, and what it reportedly said to her before it became inanimate (86). After many useless months of remaining in custody, she is released back into a world that she cannot trust.
Men would ask the woman out on dates, but only to obtain information on what happened with the flying saucer, and reporters constantly followed and harassed the woman, no matter where she went (88). I believe the event happened to her because she was a lonely woman, and perhaps it was meant to bring attention to her, although it went opposite of what was expected. Ultimately, she decided to commit suicide because with what the saucer told her, she wanted to give back, and it appears that no one was willing to accept her help, or understand the message she had passed along in her bottles (90). She was not successful in the bid to end her life because she believed that no one wanted her help, if the woman had been successful in the quest to end her life, she would not have met the man who saved and understood her, who would bring a new light to the life she wanted to leave