The Effects of Grief

Arthur Blackwood is a 32 year old man, living in a small conservative town in France. The time period is 1946, and WW2 has recently ended. Arthur's father died in the war, and he was told of his fathers death. His mother died a year earlier, and now his house, old and rickety, was empty without his father's echoing footsteps. He had realized the burden of loneliness he felt in the house was affecting him horribly, and he wrote to his lover, a man in his early 40's, of his situation. He heard back and instantly was on his way to James's house, he had not realized the woman currently living with James was not only an affair, but his wife. Arthur has to figure out his own and James's intentions, while also being haunted by the loss of his parents. Arthur copes through his art, and expresses his feelings with drawings and illustrations.