The story of "Unlighted lamps" written by Sherwood Anderson, which is narrated from Mary's point of view, it's about her personal character, motherless family and cold relations with her father. Environment also was potent factor which affected her, and the lack of the affection could have a demoralizing influence on her. In my opinion, Mary was an unhappy girl, based on her personal circumstances in the story. The two reasons caused which Mary's unhappy life are related to her environment.
In the first place, Doctor Lester Cochran, her father, was an inhibited person. There was no preliminary talk even when her father made an announcement of his death that he might die at any moment because of his heart disease. Doctor Cochran never express his love to his daughter even when he had a warm hearts in his mind. That is why Mary felt she had never been anything warm and close with her father. Also, Mary remembered that she had met her father's advances in silence when she was young.
Second, the problem of Mary's life could be attributed to her social conditions. She lived in inhospitable environment, specifically, she was a child who lived with a single father. Her parents's marriage was doomed to failure from the start by a neighbor, but it was not true; anyway, Mary's mother realized that she was living with cold man after Mary was born. Therefore, I maintain that Mary's parents were in an unhappy marriage. Besides, Mary cared much about people's gossip for her mother. For this reason, Mary had a poor self-image. She was fascinated with adventures and busy place because of feeling that she was lonely; likewise, she could not but fe디 ashamed of herself.
In brief, her home environment made her character as if she was in a chaotic situation. She did not intend what to do. Although environment has a powerful effect on us, it do not control all of our lives; however, in Mary's case, I am sure that her unhappy life connected with her environment.
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