ENGL001 English Composition I

Ellen Goodman’s essay “Friendless in America” presupposes the fact of isolation in the American society, as they people have almost no one to share their feeling and emotion. Ellen Goodman begins her essay with an instance of a woman who decides to share the news of her personal life with a radio station thus intending to share with the entire American populace. Misjudging her emotional attribute, many of them call her a woman with overt urge and desire. However, Goodman further proceeds with the fact that most of the American youths are friendless in a society where they are only friends with the laptops in the cafes. She remembers Scott Allen’s song, “It’s Lonely Out There”. The concept of being nuclear and individual has gone too far to make any friendly and intimate relationship with the people. Goodman somehow accuses technological intervention for having left human being, especially the Americans with no friend.  She further accuses lack of cultural and political support for friendship movement that has led to a circle of individuals with no one around them making them only a lonely figure.