How Is Miss Ruddock’s Terrible Loneliness Conveyed In Alan Bennett’s Es

How Is Miss Ruddocks Terrible Loneliness Conveyed In Alan BennettsA Lady Of letter?Miss Irene Ruddock is an ordinary middle-aged woman who lives on herown. She was close to her mother who had recently passed away. MissRuddock has no real friends and finds it difficult to fill her time soshe is often sitting in her chair, looking out of her window andnoting what is going on in other peoples lives. She has no social behavior and she only leaves the house when she has to.Alan Bennett shows Miss Ruddocks loneliness through her obsession ofwriting letters. She uses these letters as a way of communicating withthe world after-school(prenominal) her home. In the drama, before going to prison, wedo not hear Miss Ruddock have a meaningful conversation with anyoneother than her doctor, who she is chideing to, not more or less her ownhealth, but about her neighbours child, who she purports is beingneglected. This shows that she is lonely because she has no closefamily or friends around her w ho she can talk to so she sound off that bywriting letters she is helping the people around her and makingherself feel useful. In the monologue Miss Ruddock economizes letters to awide lay of people. All of the letters have one thing is common,which is that they are all letters of complaint. She goes to thefuneral of somebody she barely knew and complained to the funeraldirectors about grown men sulking in the rhododendrons with check endsin their mouths. She also, after a trip to London, wrote to the Queento complain about some dog poo in front of Buckingham Palace. Thistells the viewers that she is lonely because she will talk about thesmallest things if it means she will be communicating with somebody.Miss Ruddock also replies to ... ... things with which to occupy her time. I am that busy Ive opted for bookbinding and dressmaking. With these things shehas had no time with which to write letters and she has nothing tocomplain about. The viewer also knows she is lonely as her last wordsin the monologue are I am so happy. For virtually people prison is theworst time of their lives but prison gave Miss Ruddock a new licenseof life and now she has so humble time for herself and feels so wantedand needed she loves life.I think that when Miss Ruddock is released from prison she will notcontinue to write letters. I think that, for most people the storyhad a sad ending, but Miss Ruddock learned a lot from prison, ithelped her to overcome her terrible loneliness by making her feelshe had a purpose. It also taught her how to communicate with peopleorally, and how to make friends.