Relating Even More Literary Works To Moral Ambiguity

My last indipendent study was a Norweigen book by Per Peterson titled Out Stealing Horses. This book was about an old man living alone in a small mountain town, flashing back to his youth, and analyzing the present. Along with his decision to move to this town, he chose to eliminate almost all contact with his family, choosing to instead ponder in quiet serenity. Most people would assume that ignoring your children would be un-dismissable. This case though, has reasons. The main character suffered an incredible amount emotionally with the death of greates friend and companion, his wife. This character seemed to deal with emotional situation the way that I would, I do not like confiding the feelings of my emotional pain. To me, his choice was correct. He planned to eventually open back relations with his family, but he needed time ito be solitary first. Going from emotional pain to discussing emotion pain often increases the amount of hurt that is shared. To me i think he is right emotionally, but at the same time; what if his children needed to confide in him? He wasn't there if they needed him. Sometimes we need to make choices between what would provide us the greater good, and what would provide others their greatest good.