In Los Angeles in 1949, Laura Brown, a mother pregnant with her second child, suffers from anomie and solaces herself with snatches of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway.
Williams said she ended up seeking solace by herself in a park in Hobart and putting herself through what she called "the ultimate workout" to vent her frustration at losing to the 54th-ranked Sybille Bammer.
Evie finds solace in watching herself in the film "Asteroid"; it was the only starring role she ever had.
"Becoming Jane", a recent Hollywood production, presents a different, highly speculative, explanation: a beautiful girl has her heart broken by a flighty Irishman and turns to writing for solace.Miss Austen herself rated her heroines' other attributes more highly than their looks, on which she rarely spends more than a few unspecific words.
For those slouching toward middle age, Plath's poems are no longer guaranteed to provide either solace or provocation; she herself, like a war poet, was granted no middle age, and we can never know how the riper Plath might have chosen to outgrow, or even disown, the bitter fruits of her youth.
Her mother's misanthropy and hatred of pleasure threaten to lock Winterson inside herself, but she finds solace at the library, where literature helps her wrest language from her mother's control.
Her mother's misanthropy and hatred of pleasure threatens to lock Winterson inside herself, but she finds solace at the library, where literature helps her wrest language from her mother's control.
In "Eat, Pray, Love," Elizabeth Gilbert presented herself as a seeker of solace, whereas Ms. Chua eagerly overacts the role of wicked witch.
In "Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert presented herself as a seeker of solace, whereas Ms. Chua eagerly overacts the role of wicked witch.
Her disorder is as disturbing: Skylar is a "self-injurer"; for her, cutting herself is a way of seeking solace.
