Unhappiness and loneliness in lifeThe Stone Diaries

Canadian literature is different from other literature it deals with inner lives of a person. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields is an example of great Canadian literature. The Stone Diaries is the story of the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett. We see her witnessing her birth and her death and everything between. Daisy has many gaps and voids in her everyday life this causes her to be unhappy in life. She always feels alone. She loses her mother at childbirth and raised by her neighbor Clarentine Flett. Her father Culer Goodwill is unable to care for her right now. This is the beginning of her voids, gaps and holes.
The first void in Daisy Goodwill life is at her birth. She is born, and her mother Mercy dies. Her father is in a deep sorrow. Clarentine Flett raises Daisy, after Mercy's death.My mouth is open, a wrinkled ring of thread, already seeking, demanding, and perhaps knowing at some unconscious level that filament of matter we struggle to catch hold of at birth is going to be out ...