The essay “The Box Man” of Barbara Lazear Ascher describes her observations she made about a homeless man who collects cardboard boxes at night to make his home on the streets. She claims that “One could live like this” and further mentioned her favorite book, “The Boxcar Children.” Where was the character orphaned, and they rather live on their own instead of being with cruel relatives, After that is the author envisioned, two other people also live with loneliness, a soup lady, and a cat lady? The author sees the lady at her coffee shop every evening order a bowl of soup and drags it out as long as possible. There were no photographs of the family in her purse, and it was like she lives by herself. Her children live far away from her, she
