How Is Miss Ruddock’s Terrible Loneliness Conveyed In...

How Is Miss Ruddock’s Terrible Loneliness Conveyed In...

How Is Miss Ruddock's Terrible Loneliness Conveyed In Alan Bennett's

A Lady Of Letters?



Miss Irene Ruddock is an ordinary middle–aged woman who lives on her own. She was close to her mother who had recently passed away. Miss

Ruddock has no real friends and finds it difficult to fill her time so she is often sitting in her chair, looking out of her window and noting what is going on in other people's lives. She has no social life and she only leaves the house when she has to.



Alan Bennett shows Miss Ruddock's loneliness through her obsession of writing letters. She uses these letters as a way of communicating with the world outside her home. In the drama, before going to prison, we do not hear Miss Ruddock have a meaningful ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...This is a computer generated letter sent to all customers after a certain amount of time, and Miss Ruddock replies to by saying she 'thought it very considerate of them for drawing this to my attention and in the event of me noticing any deterioration I would...get in touch with them'. This is another example of loneliness as it shows her desperation to communicate with the outside world and will use any excuses to do so.



Miss Ruddock is lonely because she leads a very lacklustre life. Other than writing inappropriate letters to anyone she see's fit, she spends a lot of her time sitting in her chair by the window, often looking over the actions of her neighbour's and casting judgement over their lifestyles. An example of this is when she says 'Well, you've got a car, you've got a transistor, it's about time you invested in some curtains'. At the beginning of the monologue we find out that Miss

Ruddock attended the funeral of somebody who, until their obituary was posted in the local newspaper, she had called the wrong name. she feels that they are similar because 'She lost her mother around the same time I lost mine, she had a niece in Australia and I have one cousin in Canada, then she went in for gas–fired central heating just a few weeks before I did'. This shows that she is lonely because she is so desperate to have something to do in her leisure time that she

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