aration even lead to Eleanor being distant towards her mother; since her father was not around, she felt that is was her fault. For this reason, "Eleanor felt like the outsider" (Youngs 50). This is understandable since her father was gone and did not want to associate with her mother.
             Eleanor's family situation went from bad to worse in the following years. In a period of less than two years, Eleanor had lost her mother Anna, her brother Ellie and her father Elliot all to illnesses. Eleanor, only nine years old, had lost so much and had to carry this heavy burden with her throughout her life. As J. William Youngs put it, "Only recently everything the world could offer had been hers: loving parents, houses in the city and the country, pets and toys. One by one the pillars of that world had fallen" (Youngs 57). Eleanor, even at that age, found strength inside herself to move on and become a very accomplished young woman. With the help of her grandmother Hall, Ann's mother, Eleanor was sent to Allenswood, a school for young women that was located outside of London, England. Here she became educated and learned of a life that was unfamiliar to her outside of New York. As a result, Eleanor "nourished her confidence in herself and changed her from a shy, awkwar
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