Reading The Lamp at Noon
The "Lamp at Noon" is a short story by Sinclair Ross written about a young couple trying to survive the Great Depression. . We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will. There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name…. Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will….