What evidence supports the conclusion that the main character is lonely in “The Passing”? Click here to read the story. “Summer had grown old, and I was becoming restless.” ”Edmund was my stepfather, and since he said very little to me and because I couldn’t be around Mama all the time, I waited for Joe Willow to pass by, although I seldom spoke except to reply to his greetings.” “That evening after supper I stepped out onto the back stoop, and the yellow lamplight behind me threw my shadow onto the patches of snow and earth, enclosing it in the rectangle that formed the doorway.” “At the funeral Joe Willow’s family cried, and old Fannie even fainted at the grave site when they started to cover hi