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The Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu
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The Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu
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The Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu
This interesting story, "Standard Loneliness Package" was written by an American author Charles Yu. This is the story from his collection called "Sorry Please Thank You" which was published in 2012. This short story is mainly about those people who try to avoid their feelings of loneliness. In the story, there's a fictional service provider company called "The Personal Services Inc." This company offers its clients to experience someone else's loneliness in exchange for money. Here, the clients have to make payment to escape their loneliness.
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The Standard Loneliness Package by Charles Yu
The main character, the Narrator, has a job at The Personal Services Inc. His main task is to feel and absorb the loneliness of all his clients. This story looks at the final consequences of this unique service for both the clients and the Narrator. The clients here in the story want to escape their loneliness by making someone else feel it. The Narrator here ends up carrying the combined burden of many people's isolation. He is burdened with all these exchanging tasts regarding loneliness.
This story revolves around the Narrator's conversations with a particular client named Eleanor. Eleanor is a young woman who has a loving family and boyfriend but she feels a deep loneliness that she can't explain in words. To cope with this particular problem, she buys the Standard Loneliness Package (SLP) from the company. After buying the package, a very special and close connection between the Narrator and Eleanor has been created.
The story has different sections where the Narrator experiences a lot of difficulties about his job of exchanging isolations. He thinks about loneliness's nature. He realizes that being alone is just part of being human being. He finds this service as confusing idea where he tries to make others loneliness better by transferring it to someone else. The story makes you feel about turning emotions into something you can buy, how much you can understand other people's feelings, and whether it's right way to offer a service like this.
While the Narrator absorbs Eleanor's loneliness, he also gets trapped in her emotional challenges. The lines between who they are, begin to mix, and he ends up living two lives, feeling both his own loneliness and the loneliness of the people he works for. This double view helps the story present that loneliness is something everyone experiences, but it's also very much personal.
The Standard Loneliness Package challenges makes readers think about how important it is to share experiences with others and have real connections. It makes readers think the impact of turning our emotions into digital data and what might happen if we provide others handle our most personal feelings.
Yu uses a unique narrative style in the story. It blends science fiction and surrealism to explore into the feeling of loneliness. The story smoothly combines deep emotions, philosophical thoughts, and a bit of dark humour. The fictional service, the Standard Loneliness Package, symbolizes how society tries to cope with the natural loneliness that comes with being human.
Finally, The Standard Loneliness Package is a thoughtful reflection on how tricky human relationships can be and the deep but sometimes very difficult to search for connection. It makes readers think about how genuine their interactions are in the world where technology often provides various alternatives to real emotional experiences.
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