Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness

The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy day; she was a sincere convert to Catholicism, social activist and American journalist. Also. She is a famous writer and she was the founder of The Catholic worker. This book is about her experiencing events where she feels isolated and sometimes lonely. She describes events from her life when she felt those feelings and emotions. There are multiple of causes of here loneliness, which she talks about in all three stages in her life. First, She talks about how she felt isolated multiple times in her childhood but she addresses things she did when she felt that way. She used to pray at her school, find a bible and read it in the attic even though she wasn’t able to read it very well, and she
It really interested me to read this book. I found a lot of events that made me think and see how amazing she acted in certain situations and some situations made me wonder what was happening in her life that time. I was really struck to read how she was able to always find her self back after feeling the emotions of isolations and loneliness. For example, when she felt isolated in her childhood she always knew that the reading the bible would always get her back in the state she needed. It amazed me that how she could figure that in an early stage of her life. She turned back to the bible in other situations as well. When she went to jail she felt that the bible could get her back into not feeling week from the hunger strike that they would go on in jail. She also felt in peace when she went to church. She had a lot of influences in her life. One that interested me the most was her sense of community. For example, when she was in Staten Island she felt that she lost sense of spirituality but her friends that she meets in Staten Island were beneficial because she helped her get back a sense of community and