Other Voices, Other Rooms
As one reads Truman Capote’s, Other Voices, Other Rooms, the themes in the book become very evident. Isolation, for example, plays a large role in the novel’s protagonist’s life. Joel Knox Harrison was orphaned as a boy and is sent away to live with a family who are semi-related to him. He feels isolation both by blood, but also geographically; his new home is in the middle of nowhere which is in stark comparison to his former home of New Orleans. Loneliness seeps into every corner of his life, as he spends the rest of the ...
