The Light on the Sea by John Wickham

This story has a similar feel to the story Some People are Meant to Live Alone in a sense that Mr. Farley and Uncle Arthur have spent a majority of their time alone and have come to terms with it. However, this quote shows the difference between the stories:

     "'You know,' he said, 'I never knew what light was. All those years behind those trees in that dark house, The light use to trickle, never flow. Mark you, I used to like it, I didn't complain. I thought the gloom was pleasant. But I never knew what the light was.'
     'And how did you come to find out, to see the light?' I asked.
     'I was lucky. When my sister died, there was no one to look after things; I had never learned to cook. My friend told me about this place. The moment I saw it, I knew that I was not going back to that dark house.'"

     Unlike Uncle Arthur who seemed to have shared his loneliness and in a sense cursed his nephew with it, Mr. Farley talks about the opposite although not directly. It seems that the light happened to be his escape from perpetual loneliness of which cursed many people experiencing unhomeliness. By this, it seemed that Mr. Farley was escaped because he truly was unable to fend for himself and by escape, he went to a home where people looked after him. He became surrounded by people whose job is to help him, and thus he was not alone anymore.
     Picture being stranded out at sea with no land visible to the eye. Not seeing birds, fish, anything the moved other than the sea (Loneliness). You grow use to it when this is your life, when it is all you know or remember. Out of no where, there is a light. Because loneliness is all you know, this light can be fearful. Some people stay away, some people go towards it, and some are pulled to it. Mr. Farley in this case, was pulled towards the light. He escaped loneliness by chance but many people are not that lucky.