Why Modern Fiction Is Obsessed With Lonely People

Have you ever felt alone even when you are in a crowd?

Modern fiction often tells stories about that feeling.

People today can talk to each other more easily than ever before.

But they also see how everyone else's life looks from the outside.

This makes people compare themselves to others all the time.

Fictional characters in these stories feel invisible.

They worry that everyone else has friends and belongs somewhere.

At the same time, they hide how they really feel inside.

Novelists like writing about this because readers understand it right away.

That is why so many books today are about lonely people.