er, I never dared do that while you were living" (Longsworth 15). Edward Dickinson was later recalled as "rock of faithfulness and integrity through every crisis" after his death (Longsworth 14). Dickinson's grandparents lived with family along with numerous aunts and uncles (Longsworth 13). Samuel Fowler Dickinson, Dickinson's Grandfather, while trying to help with the building of the school became broke (Longsworth 13). He also used his building company to help construction of the school move along when funding was low (Longsworth 5). With strong relations with the school and a life guided by church, school, and surrounding people of the community Dickinson was brought up to be a very successful person in life (Longsworth 17).
             Dickinson even at an early age preferred to be alone, and would take long lonely walks through the meadows, a possible inspiration in her poems later on (Longsworth 87). Dickinson's father, Edward, worried about the dangerousness of her daughter being alone in the woods all the bought her a dog to accompany her on her outings. Dickinson quickly befriended the dog and named it Carlos. Later poems would involve her pet (Longsworth 87). Dickinson, even as a young adult, would attempt to go out of her way just so she would not have to answer the door (Longsworth 73). The only people she would open up to were her sister, Lavinia, and her brother, Austin. She even stayed distant from her mother, until a stroke left her mother paralyzed and unable to care for herself (Longsworth 74)(Longsworth 142). "We were never intimate Mother and Children while she was our Mother-but Mines in the same Ground meet by tunneling and when she became our Child, the Affection came" (GALE n. pag.). She!
             enjoyed spending time with her brother, Austin, because he was a sense of fun and excitement (Longsworth 74). She would later become more and more distant from everybody when Austin leaves for college (...